From "The Age of Arthur"
Model of the Saxon village of Feddersen Wierde (Museum Burg Bederkesa)
One of the best excavated pre-migration settlements of the Saxons is Feddersen Wierde, on the north-western coast of Germany. The Feddersen Wierde site was excavated from 1955-1963, and at its peak in the third century, the settlement featured 26 longhouses and had a population of about 300 people. The early Saxon village was abandoned in the fifth century and it is quite clear why. The whole population seem to have gotten into their boats and migrated elsewhere.
"Elsewhere" presumably being East Anglia through Kent in the land of the Britons.
My first thought looking at this was This would be a great setting for a Dungeons & Dragons module. I have not made such a module for decades, but I still think that way.
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