Key learning points

1. Most of our sources for Anglo-Saxon Britain are artefacts, supplemented by some writing.
2. All of these sources can be used for different enquiries.
3. By using the sources in different ways, and asking different questions, historians have inferred different things.
4. Historians have inferred a lot about Anglo-Saxon culture and society by combining their findings from different sources.
5. A good description of the evidence used to uncover life in Anglo-Saxon Britain will use knowledge from across this unit.

Keywords

• Modern - when something is described as modern it means it relates to the present time, not the past

• Enquiry - an enquiry is a search for information or truth by asking questions

• Infer - to infer something means to make conclusions based on evidence and reasoning

• Insight - insight is an accurate or deep understanding of something

Common misconception