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Monastic settlement, Glastonbury Tor, c11th century, (1990-2010). Somerset. Anglo Saxon monastic settlement. Reconstruction drawing. The existence of a monastic community on the Tor is confirmed by a charter of 1243 granting permission for a fair to be held at the Monastery of St. Michael on the hill. Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.