Thursday, April 13, 2006

(March 28, 2006 continued....) The name Camp Bling is explained by a notice posted by the protestors on an area of grass taped-off as the site of the Saxon graves excavated in the winter of 2003-4 by the British Museum. Apparently the popular press reported the small early Christian gold ornament and rather more impressive blue glass Aylesford Ware pot as the grave goods of a “king of Bling”. The existence of a coin from the Merogovians on the continent supports the dating to the time in the first half of the 7th century when the East Saxons were converted to Christianity twice, before finally being reconverted after the bad omen of the plague by Wilfred (see above). What must be the oldest recorded English conversation in London is recorded in all the history books and may now be seen to relate to the death of the first Christian king at Prittlewell and the arrival of his unbaptised and aggressive sons at St. Paul’s Cathedral within their inheritance. “Give us that white bread you gave to our father Saba”. This sounds like a more likely conversation than the one about Pope Gregory dispatching the missionaries to Kent by Rhymes in a Roman Slave Market.

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