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The Britons spoke an Insular Celtic language known as Common Brittonic. Brittonic was spoken throughout the island of Britain (in modern terms, England, Wales, and Scotland). [2] [14] According to early medieval historical tradition, such as The Dream of Macsen Wledig, the post-Roman Celtic speakers of Armorica were colonists from Britain, resulting in the Breton language, a language related to Welsh and identical to Cornish in the early period, and is still used today. Thus, the area today is called Brittany (Br. Breizh, Fr. Bretagne, derived from Britannia). Although defeated and occupied by the early 60's, their bitter resistance may explain the late grant of self governing civitas status to them only in the early 2nd century. Gibbard, Phil (2007). "How Britain Became An Island: The report". Nature Precedings. doi: 10.1038/npre.2007.1205.1. John E. Pattison. "Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275(1650), 2423–2429, 2008 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0352 However, by the early 1100s, the Anglo-Saxons and Gaels had become the dominant cultural force in most of the formerly Brittonic ruled territory in Britain, and the language and culture of the native Britons was thereafter gradually replaced in those regions, [37] remaining only in Wales, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and Brittany, and for a time in parts of Cumbria, Strathclyde, and eastern Galloway.

Other hoards of elaborately decorated bronze chariot fittings point to a love of conspicuous display by the nobles of the Iceni. Produced in 1554 for his translation of Ptolomey’s Geographica, this map shows a significant improvement from Munster’s 1550 map of the island. 8. Anglia and Hibernia Nova by Girolamo Ruscelli – 1561 From 1706, when the first stage coach route was established between York and London, the popularity of coaches improved the condition of England’s ancient roads. The 18 th century coaching road in West Sussex was developed from a Roman road that stretched between London and Brighton. The section surviving near Pyecombe runs for over 500 metres and was scheduled in 1968 to protect both its Roman remains and Georgian additions. Fraser, James E. (2009). From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795. Vol.1. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)

5. Britannia Insula by George Lily – 1548

Cross channel trade was not an important source of goods for the Durotriges, who preferred local products. Centred in Dorset, this people were also found in southern parts of Wiltshire and Somerset and western Dorset. Bramanti B, Thomas MG, Haak W, etal. (October 2009). "Genetic discontinuity between local hunter-gatherers and central Europe's first farmers". Science. 326 (5949): 137–40. Bibcode: 2009Sci...326..137B. doi: 10.1126/science.1176869. PMID 19729620. S2CID 206521424.

Lemercier, O. (2012). "Interpreting the Beaker phenomenon in Mediterranean France: an Iron Age analogy". Antiquity. 86 (331): 131–43. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00062505. S2CID 19294850.The Romans considered Anglesey, or Mona as they and the locals at the time called it, as a stronghold of the Druids. Similarly, the Brittonic colony of Britonia in northwestern Spain appears to have disappeared soon after 900 AD. The century following 600 bce saw the building of many large hill forts; these suggest the existence of powerful chieftains and the growth of strife as increasing population created pressures on the land. By 300 bce swords were making their appearance once more in place of daggers. Finally, beginning in the 3rd century, a British form of La Tène Celtic art was developed to decorate warlike equipment such as scabbards, shields, and helmets, and eventually also bronze mirrors and even domestic pottery. During the 2nd century the export of Cornish tin, noted before 300 by Pytheas of Massalia, a Greek explorer, continued; evidence of its destination is provided by the Paul (Cornwall) hoard of north Italian silver coins. In the 1st century bce this trade was in the hands of the Veneti of Brittany; their conquest (56 bce) by Julius Caesar, who destroyed their fleet, seems to have put an end to it.

Researchers used aerial photography and LiDARsurveys to create a 3-D map of England'shistorical landscape. Archaeologically, the territory of the Votadini was very different to that of either the Venicones or the Novantae. The following is a list of the major Brittonic tribes, in both the Latin and Brittonic languages, as well as their capitals during the Roman period. The Trinovantes are the first British tribe to be mentioned by a Roman author, appearing in Caesar's account of his invasion of 54 BC. By this date they seem to have been already involved in a power struggle with the neighbouring tribes to the west who were to be forged into the kingdom of the Catuvellauni under Tasciovanus.

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The Britons ( * Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2] They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages. [2] Main article: Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain Britons migrated westwards during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain The kingdom of Ceint (modern Kent) fell in 456 AD. Linnuis (which stood astride modern Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire) was subsumed as early as 500 AD and became the English Kingdom of Lindsey.

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