Yeavering

Yeavering est un hameau du Northumberland, en Angleterre. Il est situé dans le nord du comté, sur la rivière Glen, à la limite nord des monts Cheviot. Administrativement, il relève de la paroisse civile de Kirknewton.

1. Histoire

Les fouilles menées près de Yeavering dans les années 1950 par l'archéologue Brian Hope-Taylor (en) ont permis de mettre au jour une grande halle de la période anglo-saxonne. Elle est couramment identifiée au site de Ad Gefrin mentionné dans l'Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais de Bède le Vénérable. Bède rapporte qu'en 626, le moine Paulin se rend à Ad Gefrin avec le roi de Northumbrie Edwin pour procéder au baptême de nombreux habitants de son royaume lors d'une cérémonie qui dure trente-six jours. Les objets retrouvés sur le site permettent d'affirmer qu'il est en usage à partir de la fin du VIe siècle. Le faible nombre de détritus suggère qu'il n'est occupé que de manière épisodique et qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une résidence permanente des rois de Northumbrie. Le palais de Yeavering est abandonné vers le milieu du VIIe siècle, l'un des objets découverts dans un bâtiment tardif étant une fausse pièce mérovingienne datée des alentours de la décennie 630-640. Bède, qui écrit en 731, note que le palais de Yeavering est abandonné par les successeurs d'Edwin au profit d'une nouvelle résidence à Mælmin.

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1. Bibliographie

Bède le Vénérable (trad. Philippe Delaveau), Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais, Gallimard, coll. « L'Aube des peuples », 1995, 399 p. (ISBN 2-07-073015-8). (en) Paul Frodsham et Colm O'Brien, Yeavering : People, Power and Place, Stroud, The History Press, 2005, 254 p. (ISBN 978-0-7524-3344-8). (en) Helen Gittos, « Yeavering », dans Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes et Donald Scragg (éd.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Wiley Blackwell, 2014, 2e éd. (ISBN 978-0-470-65632-7). (en) Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering : An Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria, Londres, Historic England, 1977, 392 p. (ISBN 978-1-84802-052-8). Portail de l’Angleterre

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Yeavering () is a hamlet in the north-east corner of the civil parish of Kirknewton in the English county of Northumberland. It is located on the River Glen at the northern edge of the Cheviot Hills. It is noteworthy as the site of a large Anglo-Saxon period settlement that archaeologists have interpreted as being one of the seats of royal power held by the kings of Bernicia in the 7th century AD. Evidence for human activity in the vicinity has been found from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, although the first significant settlement at Yeavering occurred in the Iron Age. In this period, a heavily inhabited hillfort was constructed on Yeavering Bell which appears to have been a major settlement centre at the time. According to Book 2 Chapter 14 of the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede (673–735), in the year 627 Bishop Paulinus of York accompanied the Northumbrian king Edwin and his queen Æthelburg to their royal vill (the Latin term is villa regia), Adgefrin, where Paulinus spent 36 days preaching and baptising converts in the river Glen.

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