History of Norfolk - The Broads, Kett's Rebellion, Norfolk Wherry, Village Sign, Prehistoric Norfolk, Norfolk Dialect, High Sheriff of Norfolk (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: The Broads, Kett's Rebellion, Norfolk wherry, Village sign, Prehistoric Norfolk, Norfolk dialect, High Sheriff of Norfolk, List of museums in Norfolk, Battle of North Walsham, 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak, Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, Paston Letters, North Sea flood of 1953, Icknield Way, Black Shuck, Burston Strike School, Iceni, Roman Norfolk, Albion, Norfolk County Cricket Club, Norwich School, Maud, Happisburgh Lighthouse, Hagon Beck, Hathor, List of lost settlements in Norfolk, Gurney's Bank, The Ferryboat Inn, 1966 Felthorpe Trident crash, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Tom Hickathrift, Gaymer Cider Company, Thorpe rail accident, Vince & Son, Norfolk Record Society, Catch-land. Excerpt: Norfolk is a rural county in the East of England. Our knowledge of prehistoric Norfolk is limited by a lack of evidence - although the earliest finds are from the end of the Lower Paleolithic period. Communities have existed in Norfolk since the last Ice Age and tools, coins and hoards such as those found at Snettisham indicate the presence of an extensive and industrious population. The Iceni tribe inhabited the region prior to the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD, after which they built roads, forts, villas and towns. Boudica's rebellion in 60 AD, caused by the imposition of direct rule by the Romans, was followed by order and peace, which lasted until the Roman armies left Britain in 410 AD. The subsequent arrival of the Anglo-Saxons caused the loss of much Roman and British culture in Norfolk. It is known from external evidence from excavations and place-names that by c. 800 AD all Norfolk had been settled and the first towns had emerged. Norfolk was the northern half of the Kingdom of East Anglia and was ruled by the Anglo-Saxon Wuffing dynasty. Our knowledge of several Wuffings is scant, as few hi...