OUR HERITAGE, SHAPING LEDBURY’S FUTURE

PROTECTING OUR HERITAGE, SHAPING THE FUTURE

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 – MEETING

25 Mar, 2025

     

 Herefordshire in the Dark Ages c. 400-600 A.D.

By David Whitehead

For the JOE HILLABY MEMORIAL TALK 2025, David Whitehead will shed a little light on the county’s past between 400 and 600 A.D.

In about 410 A.D. Roman Britain came to an end. Vestiges of a literate society survived in the Celtic west but in Herefordshire the evidence for any sort of human endeavour is very scarce until ‘history’ begins again in North Herefordshire in c.660 AD.

The image above shows an Anglo-Saxon burial in the Avon Valley, Worcestershire – none have been found in Herefordshire.

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