Gildas, a British monk, wrote 'The Ruin of Britain', the only near-contemporary source for the collapse of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons ... those of the Celtic church ...

The idea persists that, in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon regions of eastern Britain, the Celtic West was at the 'edge of the earth', and was a land of tyrants and barbarians, who, in their isolation, ...

bowls from the Celts in western England, silver plates from the Byzantine Empire, and garnets that likely came all the way from India or Sri Lanka. Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...