`Out of curiosity, I checked out your reference. I guess the point you are making is this. Sutcliff represented the emergence of Anglo-Saxon England from Romano Britain as a process of ethnic cleansing. At one stage, archaeology and place name analysis suggested that Sutcliff was wrong, and the process was more one of cultural assimilation. For example, it can be demonstrated that Celtic people were living in the London area until well into the Saxon era (note the origins of the place name ``Wallington``). The logic here being that ethnic cleansing is a modern concept, alien to the 45 - 600 AD period. But, DNA evidence has now established that ethnic cleansing did happen in Dark Ages Britain. Sutcliff appreciation was right.  However, that wasn't what I was getting at. When I read the dialogue in Sutcliff's books, I hear plummy home-county voices from the 1930s and 40s. Bob      `