North British Warrior

[Robert Vermaat]

I just love terminology evolution.

Wasn't this period called 'post-Roman Britain' during the 1970s and 80s?

SFB = Sunken Featured Building, grubenhaus, grubhut etc. The stereotypical pitched roofed 'Anglo-Saxon' building built over a pit.
Until it was realised that there were probably floorboards over said pit (and that some, if not all, of them were used as workshops and storage buildings rather than dwellings), some archaeologists thought that the early English basicaly lived in muddy holes in the ground with a roof over them. Fitted in nicely with the concept of 'The Dark Ages'.

I think the first meaning of SFB was really 'Sunken-Floored Building', with archaeologists indeed believing that the early Anglo-Saxons lived in a pit with walls and a roof..

I read somewhere that the modern interpretation of the SFB pictured a well-aired building which may have been more comfortable than the common British dwelling.