Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

Caesar’s contemporaries and the Roman writers of succeeding [Sidenote: The importance of Caesar’s British expeditions under estimated by his contemporaries and by historians.] g...

which Diodorus gives in v, 22 of the mode in which the tin trade was conducted must have been derived from an eye-witness; and that of all the ancient writers Pytheas was the on...

Those who have learned to realize the extreme slowness with which material culture was evolved in its earlier stages would be disposed to doubt whether the first metallic implem...

Iron-working was of course familiar to the people of the Mediterranean and even to the continental Celts long before it was introduced into Britain;[966] but, it need scarcely b...

No one can say how long after the close of the Ice Age the first neolithic immigrants appeared;[209] nor can it even be positively affirmed that in Northern Britain the last gla...

A chapter devoted to Palaeolithic Man may perhaps appear irrelevant to a work the aim of which is to serve as an introduction to English history; for it has been questioned whet...

Caesar had learned the lessons which failure had taught [Sidenote: Caesar builds a fleet for a second expedition.] him. In the winter he was obliged, as usual, to go to Cisalpin...

Before Caesar could venture to undertake so difficult an enterprise as the invasion of Britain, it was necessary for him to secure the country in his rear. His first two campaig...

When Caesar was about to sail on his first expedition to Britain, he summoned the Gallic traders whose vessels used to ply between Gaul and the Kentish coast, and tried to elici...

[The maps of South-Eastern Britain and East Kent, like all maps of Ancient Britain, are inevitably inexact; but the errors are unimportant. The Dover cliffs, for instance, have...