Re: [Rollei] Roman Britain

[Terry Roberts <giantfrog >]

Marc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2076470.stm

might be of interest to you (if you're not already aware of it)- it's about
DNA evidence for Anglo-Saxon displacement of the indigenous population.

I can't for the life of me find where the 10 million figure came from,
except that AFAIR the source was rescue archaeology in Gloucestershire.

It appears that British archaeologists are busy revising the ideas of a
previous generation; they've started to work more closely with detectorists
and are using sophisticated non-destructive mapping techniques etc. This all
gets popularised as "Time Team" and "Meet The Ancestors", and on a more
junky level "Battlefield Detectives" and the latest (which I haven't seen)
"Extreme Archaeology".

For some reason Nettleton, on the Fosse north of Bath, seems to me to have
the spirit of the Roman British countryside, the "genius locii". Climbing up
from there to R.A.F. Colerne you can see the embankment of the road as you
pass the camp. I know there's a technical term for this but I've forgotten.
Whilst trying to find it I discovered a reference to another Roman road in
the vicinity of Leicester that I'd never heard of!

Terry

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