https://www.livescience.com/anglo-saxons-were-largely-vegetarian

Despite their high status, Anglo-Saxon royalty didn’t regularly feast on copious amounts of meat and fish. Rather, these medieval rulers dined primarily on vegetables, just like the commoners they ruled over, according to two new studies.  

In fact, social hierarchy did not have any bearing on the amount of meat consumed; both royalty and peasants chowed down on large amounts of meat only occasionally, the research revealed. It wasn’t until the Vikings settled in what is now the United Kingdom in the ninth century and onward that meat became more common on the menu, the team reported.

I once read a series of books by… Costain on english history. He mentioned that sometimes the only records that remain are the menu and kitchen ones. All this food turned up on this date. This was had for dinner that night. There was that much food and so the king arrived then and had that many followers with him.

So far as I can gather, there is startlingly little archaeological information about the Angles and Saxons in England.
Slightly more about the Jutes perhaps, but not much more.

Populations of pre-Viking Angles and Saxons in Britain must have been exceedingly small. Perhaps as small as one hundredth of the population density of pre-Roman Britain, perhaps smaller.

mollwollfumble said:

So far as I can gather, there is startlingly little archaeological information about the Angles and Saxons in England.
Slightly more about the Jutes perhaps, but not much more.

Populations of pre-Viking Angles and Saxons in Britain must have been exceedingly small. Perhaps as small as one hundredth of the population density of pre-Roman Britain, perhaps smaller.

>>The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain is the process which changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic. The Germanic-speakers in Britain, themselves of diverse origins, eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons. This process principally occurred from the mid-fifth to early seventh centuries, following the end of Roman rule in Britain around the year 410. The settlement was followed by the establishment of the Heptarchy, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the south and east of Britain, later followed by the rest of modern England, and the south-east of modern Scotland.<<

>>Even so, if these incomers established themselves as a social elite practising a level of endogamy, this could have allowed them enhanced reproductive success (the ‘apartheid theory’, named after the 20th-century apartheid system of South Africa). In this case, the prevalent genes of later Anglo-Saxon England could have been largely derived from moderate numbers of Germanic migrants. This theory, originating in an early population genetics study, has proven controversial, and has been critically received by many scholars. More recent genetic studies have tentatively supported the conclusion that the Germanic-speaking incomers, while contributing substantially to the current English gene pool, did not replace the pre-existing British population.<<

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