The Anglo-Saxons started to arrive in Britain sometime between AD425-450.
We know this because a monk called Bede wrote in AD731 about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. He said that the first Anglo-Saxon settlers arrived in AD449.
Anglo-Saxons objects found by archaeologists also indicate they arrived at about this time.
The Anglo-Saxon period lasted from AD450 to AD1066.
Archaeologists divide this period into three smaller periods of time:
