Post Roman
In the post Roman period from about 400 AD to 650 AD, the future Dorset was an independent British kingdom. Although there were Jutish and later Saxon people in the Southampton area from the 5th century, the Britons seem to have successfully resisted their expansion into future Dorset for a long period. One of the key battles (Mount Badon) between the Britons and Saxons may have been fought at Badbury Rings, though this is disputed. The only historical record of the period, Gildas's De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, may have been written in Dorset. There may have been a Saxon raid at Bindon in 614, though the location is not certain.
There is a group of Romano-British inscriptions at Wareham.
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