The Castle Keep, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Image showing shields from the families of Percy, Liddell, Umfreville and Swinburne, a king and hawk, a plan of the castle grounds, an image of the castle keep and the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne coat of arms.

 

 

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Click here to go back in timeTimeline scroll showing an Anglian grave and a gravestone.Click to move forwards in time
  
 

Anglo-Saxon

450 AD
Anglo Saxons begin to seize control of England.
[click for larger image of the grave]

c.700 AD
Possible first use of the site of the Pons Aelius as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. This may have been part of a monastic community known as Monkchester. [click for larger image of the gravestone]

865 AD
Vikings conquer Northumbria, East Anglia and Mercia. The only kingdom which remains in English hands is Wessex, ruled by King Alfred.

  
 
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