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History
Anglo Saxon |
| The departure of the Romans in circa 410 left the country vulnerable to invasion by fearsome pagan tribes originating from Germany known as Anglo Saxons. Between the 5th and 7th centuries the Anglo Saxons erased the signs of Roman rule and established their own form of civilised life, which remained until 1066. |
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A large number of Anglo Saxon charters relate to Droitwich referred to as “Saltwich”. The presence of salt making furnaces near the River Salwarpe are confirmed in charters dated 716 and 717. During the 7th and 8th centuries the Mercian King and the Cathedral Priory Church at Worcester owned most of the salt rights. In the 10th century a charter names three salt working areas, Upwich to the North of the river, Middlewich and Netherwich further down stream. In these times coins were produced by hammer and die. To try to regularise the coins being produced King Athelstan proclaimed that only places of importance could mint coins and Droitwich was one of those places. In 973 King Edgar called in all the coins to be melted down and restruck as uniform pennies. In the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042 –1066) the mint produced some coins which could only be struck at six mints in Britain further confirming the importance of Droitwich and its salt works in Anglo Saxon times. |
