Author: Steven Plunkett. If one wishes to learn about Anglo-Saxon
history, Suffolk, England is a very good place to start. This book looks at the archaeology
of West Stow, of Sutton Hoo and of the urban origins of Gipeswic
(Ipswich) which are all fundamental to modern understandings of
that period. Steven Plunkett offers a narrative of Suffolk
affairs from the Anglo-Saxon migrations of the fifth century
down to the onset of the Vikings and the overthrow of king
Eadmund in 865-70. Suffolk, Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire
were at that time not separate entities but collectively the
territory of the Kingdom of the East Angles. It was not until
the tenth century that the shires gained their separate existence.
Suffolk took its shape from part of this older reality which
Steven Plunkett explores and explains.
