Saxons (410 -1066)
With the breakdown of Roman authority, the countryside became less organised. Drainage systems were abandoned and woodland regenerated.
Saxon settlers and natives reverted to subsistence-based farming based around villages like Long Wittenham.
Eventually, as chiefdoms crystallised and combined into kingdoms, and Christianity took hold. Land was organised into the manorial system with its open fields held in common.
Little Wittenham belonged to Abingdon Abbey, but was probably farmed much like any secular manor.
