2nd October 2011, 04:11 PM
Quote:Maybe some areas were actually "Brito-Roman"?
I like that. and then what about those nasty people up beyond the Clyde Forth valley... not even British by all account? but they experienced 'Rome' as well, just reacted a bit differently.
What Dino says is one of teh things that triggered me off. as 'after' the Romans left ( or should we say after Rome stopped answering the metaphorical phone) the same sort of tribal divisions, activities and actions (such as the cists) seem to return as if through 300 + years these had been stored away in a nice safe dry cupboard, knowing they would be needed again. So where are the Romans? How deep did the culture truly penetrate? Or was it a veneer, and one that lulls us into a Golden Age. In real terms ' we' were never anything else but who we already were. And how quick it collapses? As fast as the Soviet Union.
So as a cover all term it is useful, but it is so unspecific and both time/location dependant as to be not as useful as we think.
This could indeed be true for any period I suppose. :face-huh: