Coventry up north? Capital city of bike building, advanced engineering, home of frank whittle, the specials, the beat, and 11th century anarchists that over came aggression by getting their baps out. What's not to like?
Centralised bureaucracy, cobbled roads with no bends, communal crappers without toilet paper, baths without plugs, toga parties, interfering with boys, sandals and bloody pulleys. Whereas the Saxons: thatched cottages and decent jewelry. That's two nil for a start. Romans- Ha! I break wind in your general direction.
Maybe. Sadly there are no written records of any kind relating to any period prior to 55 BC in Britain (Julius Caesar's own commentaries were the first) so all is speculation and mystery.
Modern investigative techniques are changing that, though, even though there are no written records. The malachite mines at Great Orme show large scale mining in evidence up to 4000 years ago. The advent of the Bronze age saw tin being transported from Cornwall, so clearly logistics wasn't a hurdle, and the sheer amount of material mined proves that trading with continental types was very much under way. The discovery of the Dover boat, that predates Caesar's arrival by 2000 years, and evidence of farming activity - and the use of domesticated dogs - going back even further suggests the population Caesar encountered were far from savages. It's also thought that the Celts arrival into Britain drove away all the local savages, but again modern technology is disproving that. Mitochondrial DNA testing of current inhabitants of Cheddar prove a direct family link to the skeleton in the caves dating back 10,000 years. So far from being driven away by the Celts, it would appear that we were simply trading with them. Not bad for a bunch of barbarians, eh? We just weren't as show-offy as the Romans. Some things never change...
Romans beat the english easily, but the Scots or Picts whatever gave em a good kicking. C U Juilius take that ya bampot.
They didn't. They Durotriges in Dorset gave Vespasian a thorough kicking in 43 AD. He went away with his tail between his legs and practised for 30 years before coming back for another go with more men, which is cheating.
