In Search of Saxons: at Berkeley Castle (Rhodri Davies)

Shortlisted in the Documentary cataegory at Cambridge International Student FIlm Festival 2011. . Dissertation film for my MA in Archaeology for Screen Media at the University of Bristol. Written, Directed and Produced by Rhodri Davies © 2010 University of Bristol. This film follows the exploits of the University of Bristol on an excavation in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Since 2005, these archaeologists have been examining the traces of an early Anglo-Saxon religious community at Berkeley, one whose population was predominantly female, but is likely to have included a number of men. The religious buildings used by this community may have been demolished or went out of use shortly before the Norman Conquest of 1066, their remains may have been encorporated into the later Norman castle that still stands today and which Berkeley is famous for, amongst other things. For more information on the Berkeley Castle Project visit the Berke