Two Cultures
Archaeologists, following J.N.L. Myres, detect in the post-Roman period two distinct principal pre-Christian cultures in Kent, identifiable by their by no means homogeneous grave goods. The poorer one, still occasionally practising cremation, has affinities in its pottery and its brooches with Saxons and Frisians. The other Myres distinguished by their wheel-thrown pottery of Frankish technique and precious metals, garnets, glass, amethysts and other luxuries in personal adornment and in skilful metalworking techniques in enamel, niello and filigree unparalleled elsewhere in sub-Roman Britain. A critical unsolved problem in the early history is the relationship of these cultures, overlapping in time, the Frankish material culture, perhaps, according to H.R. Loyn the remains of a richer culture of foederati and their successors, the poorer culture setting up farmsteads under the protection of a warrior aristocracy that expanded from a base in East Kent, the Isle of Thanet and Canterbury.
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