Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-tn8tq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-17T17:04:33.175Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Further Observations on the Polygonal Type of Settlement in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Extract

In a previous paper which I had the honour to submit to the Society on Silchester and its affinities to the pre-Roman civilization of Gaul, I described the definite resemblances in form of town-plan and other features of the settlement type to be found at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) and other similar early sites in this country, to known settlements of the Gauls in France and Northern Italy. From this I concluded that a considerable immigration of Gauls took place from France to this country somewhat prior to the first century of our era and subsequent to the expeditions of Julius Caesar; that a permanent settlement of these Gauls in South Britain resulted, and that they retained their national customs and institutions throughout the Roman and well into the Saxon period of our history. I further suggested that the general direction of this immigration was from the mouth of the Seine to the Sussex coast and inland towards the Berkshire Downs and the head-waters of the Thames. In the present paper an attempt is made to indicate with some measure of precision the main route followed by the immigrants towards the interior, and the area of their settlement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1921

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 303 note 1 Proc. Soc. Ant., xxxii, p. 185.

page 304 note 1 Coutil, , L'Époque Gauloise dans le Sud-ouest de la Belgique et le Nord-ouest de la Celtique, p. 246Google Scholar.

page 304 note 2 V. C. H. Sussex, i, 466.

page 305 note 1 V. C. H. Surrey, iv, 394.

page 306 note 1 V. C. H. Surrey, iv, 389.

page 306 note 2 Trans. Newbury District Field Club, iv, 138. V.C.H. Berks., i, 257.

page 306 note 3 V. C. H. Berks., i, 261.

page 306 note 4 Ibid., 262.

page 306 note 5 Ibid., 253.

page 307 note 1 Brown, Baldwin, The Arts in Early England, iii, 184; iv, 650Google Scholar.

page 308 note 1 Trans. Newbury Field Club, iv, 204.

page 309 note 1 de Coulanges, Fustel, La Gaule Romaine, p. 10Google Scholar.

page 310 note 1 Gondetoy, Dict. de l'ancienne langue française du ixe–xve siècle, s. v.; du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. Bannum.

page 310 note 2 For detailed summary of classical references to the Gallic leuga see Holder, A., Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz, vol. ii, p. 197 s.vGoogle Scholar.

page 311 note 1 Atkinson, , The Romano-British Site on Lowbury Hill, pp. 25 follGoogle Scholar.

page 312 note 1 Historia Gildae de excidio Britanniae § 22. 10.