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Setting out on a journey in Dark Age times was tantamount to an act of courage, particularly when a route ran through the dark and dismal forests that were the only place where outlaws were able to live. Everywhere else was full of people looking out for them, ready to hand them over to the authorities for punishment.

The Fate of Strangers

Not only that, travelling the roads was slow and difficult. It became more so when it was necessary to camp in the forest or by the roadside during the hours of darkness. This was especially frightening at a time when many people believed in demons, ghosts and evil spirits.

Strangers were treated with suspicion so that any traveller risked being killed as a thief by anyone they met along the way. No one, it appears, waited to ask a stranger who he was or what he was doing in the forest or on the road. The Dark Ages were such dangerous and violent times that killing a stranger seemed better than letting him into a village where he might rob the inhabitants, steal cattle or kidnap chldren.

Travelling to Market

As the early, most violent Dark Age years passed, merchants, who were particularly susceptible to attack, began to feel secure enough to travel the roads with their wares.

Some of them journeyed between the market towns that often grew up on the sites of old Roman towns. Others headed for the coast, where they put their wares on board ship for export to foreign lands. Some of their goods were luxury items such as purple garments and silks, precious gems and gold, spices, wine, oil, ivory, brass, copper and tin.

The Legacy of the Romans

The Anglo-Saxons largely neglected the towns, roads, bridges, acqueducts and other facilities the Romans left behind when they abandoned their province of Britannia by around 426AD.

Even so, they recognised the value of roads which ran to the ports, and the market towns where they sold their goods. The Romans had not only been splendid builders of roads and towns. They also knew the best places to put them. This was why when the Anglo-Saxons chose a site for a new town of their own, it was often in the same place the Romans had chosen before them.

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