Brits Before The Romans

[Kev]

Archaeologists have found Britain's oldest properly engineered road, and the discovery could change the way we look at a key aspect of British history. Now, many of the country's key A roads – long thought to be Roman in origin – could now turn out to be substantially more British than scholars had thought.

The discoveries, in Shropshire, suggest that ancient Britons were building finely engineered, well-cambered and skilfully metalled roads before the Emperor Claudius's conquering legions ever set foot in Britain in the middle of the 1st century BC.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us-if-they-didnt-build-our-roads-2238592.html#

[Val Beechey]

That doesn't surprise me, really, if you think about it there are the extremely well built 'causeways' running to and from Stone Henge and other Megalithic sites.
Was watching a programe a few weeks ago where the Archies found a settlement and a Henge and a huge roadway running from it.
Goes to show, once again, we weren't the Barbarians they made us out to be.

Val

[legio11augustus]

think the word barbarian , the romans called everyone was derived from bearded one.....