Religious buildings and artefacts
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I can explain what archaeologists and historians think they have found out about Christianity in Anglo-Saxon Britain from buildings and artefacts.
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Historians believe that Anglo-Saxon churches were built on sites of older pagan temples and places of worship.
Archaeologists have found the remains of Anglo-Saxon churches and monasteries, such as Jarrow Abbey.
These were centres of manuscript making and learning; Bede entered one aged 7 and went on to write a history of Britain.
The Franks Casket, a 700s CE Northumbrian chest, has both pagan imagery and the Christian Adoration of the Magi.
Historians argue about what else it shows, but it does suggest pagan traditions continued after Christianity’s spread.
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