By Jasmine Jones

2/5/15

Anglo Saxons

• Introduction• Jewellery• What the Saxon’s wore • The King stone broach• Settlers and kings • Freemen and slaves• British and Saxon

Contents

My presentation is about Anglo Saxons and their life. It is mostly about slaves and freemen ,you will find out what freeman means.

I hope you enjoy it.

Introduction

Jewellery• Saxon jewellery was always very colourful• It was also thoughtfully designed and carefully made• Glass and amber hung from the ladies dresses• The King stone broach is the largest and finest Anglo-

Saxon broach of it’s kind ever found.it is made of gold with settings of garnet , blue glass and shell

• It is over 1300 years old• It was worn by women and men

Amber is fossilised resin from trees.

Ladies•A loose gown fastened round with a belt•A full length tunic •A cloak round her shoulders with a hood

ClothesMen’s

•A short cloak

•A knee length tunic with tight sleeves

•Knee length trousers

•Leather shoes

• Poor people wore less clothes made of rougher cloth .• They often went barefooted even in the winter.• The wealthy: they had clothes dyed bright colours and

fastened with expensive broaches.

• Each Saxon group had a leader or a chief• A strong leader became a cyning Saxon for the king• Each king ruled a kingdom and lead a small army• There were many quarrels between kingdom to see how

was the strongest• By AD600 there were five important Saxon Kingdoms.

They were Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Kent and East Anglia

• From time to time the strongest King would claim to be Bretwalda witch meant ruler of Britain

Settlers and kings

• Most people in Saxon times were freemen or slaves

• A freemen owned land and slaves and a slave owned nothing

• A slave might be a prisoner captured in war or sometimes born into slavery

• The richest and most powerful freemen helped the King rule the country, while kings and freemen lived in large halls wooden houses

• Poor slaves were glad of a cow shed or a barn to sleep in at night. Many slaves were treated badly

• They could not leave the owners unless they were sold or set free

• They would get caught and executed if they ran away

Freemen or slaves

• Saxon owners could do what they liked with their slaves

• They were allowed to beat them or even kill them if they wanted to

• King Alfred, in the end , put a stop to this but in British areas slaves could claim compensation (money) if they were treated badly

• The British and Saxons had different grades of slaves and they were allowed their own possessions but not weapons

• Most slaves in the Saxon kingdom were British, but most slaves in the British kingdom were Saxons

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