WAIT! WHAT?
No. That does not cut it as a "royal palace," Anglo-Saxons. That SUCKS as a royal palace. That is a disgrace to royal palaces everywhere.
"Only ten of the hundreds of settlement sites that have been excavated in England from this period have revealed masonry domestic structures and confined to a few quite specific contexts. The usual explanation for the tendency of Anglo–Saxons to build in timber is one of technological inferiority or incompetence."
"The stone buildings imposed on England by the Romans would have been ‘startling’ and ‘exceptional’, and following the collapse of Roman society in the fifth century there was a widespread return to timber building, a ‘cultural shift’ that it is not possible to explain by recourse to technological determinism."
This does not pleasure me.
