This talk looked at the critical time when the established provinces of later Roman Britain were replaced by newly emergent and forming peoples and kingdoms. Gradually, a linguistic, and religious, boundary emerged, a new frontier zone between the British-speaking and Christian people of what became Wales, and the English-speaking and initially pagan people of Mercia and other English peoples. This lecture sought to shed light on how this transition occurred, and what evidence there is for it.
Roger White is a retired Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. He was before that Academic Director the Ironbridge Institute, a centre dedicated to postgraduate Heritage and Museum Studies and Training. He is still working on his life-long project of the archaeology of Wroxeter Roman City but increasingly works across the county of Shropshire on a variety of sites in his guise as Hon Chair and Editor for the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society.
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