Smith, I. M. (1991). Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an early Anglian centre of the eastern Tweed Basin. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 121. Vol 121, pp. 261-294.

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Title:		 Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an early Anglian centre of the eastern Tweed Basin
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Issue:		 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 121
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Volume:		 121
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Page Start/End:		 261 - 294
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Abstract:		 Evidence for English settlement in the Tweed Basin from the seventh to ninth centuries is mainly circumstantial, but on the south side of the Tweed, near Sprouston, aerial photography since 1970 has shown a township which can be positively identified as Anglian. The cropmark evidence is transcribed and tentatively subdivided into three broad periods (prehistoric, Romano-British/early historic, Anglian). Each is appraised and the elements identified are qualified by reference to parallels drawn from a limited radius in North Britain. The likely origins and status of the township are discussed; it may have functioned as an urbs regis or royal centre, one of the first to have been founded in the Tweed Basin during the westward English expansion in the late-sixth or early-seventh century.
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Author:		 Ian M Smith
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Other Person/Org:		 Brendan O C O'Connor (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 1991
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Aerial Photography (Auto Detected Subject)
Earlyseventh Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Royal Centre (Auto Detected Subject)
English Settlement (Auto Detected Subject)
Early Anglian (Auto Detected Temporal)
Anglian (Auto Detected Temporal)
Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal)
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Created Date:		 20 Jan 2002