This map shows the approximate location of the major tribes who lived in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest of Britain in the First Century AD. The sole source for the existence and ...

Described by experts as an “archaeological time capsule,” the hoard is thought to have been buried in the first century AD, coinciding with the Roman conquest of southern Britain. Among the ...

How did the Anglo-Saxon period shape England as we know it today?

(CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

Roman Britain's main produce were crops like spelt ... to invade the province en masse with the intention of raiding rather than conquest. Their finding that the most severe conditions were ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, but also played a role in the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a catastrophic ...

So wrote Gildas, a sixth-century British monk, describing the Germanic conquest of Britain shortly after the end of Roman rule. His account of this bloody war endured, as did the belief that the ...

Julius Caesar's two invasions of Britain took place in 55 and 54 BC. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it evolved into Verulamium, one of the largest towns in Roman Britain.

An archaeological find of Iron Age artifacts including horse harnesses, chariots and tires sheds new light on English life ...