Romano British - Is there really such a thing?

[Dirty Boy]

never mind that : Jack is spot on;

"....the settlement was probably abandoned and the enclosure ditch in-filled by the late 1st century AD and hence probably fell out of use during or soon after the Roman advance into the region."

of course how the 'Roman Advance' is defined is another matter....occupation, alliance, trade, ideas...concrete social process, not applied retrospective terminology...


(but Jack is right)

And of course, the fact that a lot of people in Britain were getting their hands on Roman goods afore Cladius' elephants trod upon these shores. See the client kings of Augustus. I'm sure there's a great classical quote about the Romans trading poor quality wine in amphora for large amounts of slaves from less "civilised" parts of the world (possibly more to applies to Continental activity, but was probably going on here too)