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[dances with badgers]

april lol

[Chef Geoff]

June 14th, 0310 ferry from Dieppe

[Kev]

Chef its.600-100BC...
"Who exactly were the Celts?" is a question which vexes historians on a daily basis. The first written evidence suggests that they were seen in the region North of the Alps around 1000-600 BC, known collectively as "the Keltoi" - but as a wandering race, they were chased to the nether regions of Western Europe - there are traces of them around the coasts of Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Lowlands - before finally settling in what we know these days as the United Kingdom, Ireland and Brittany (in France). But if they were chased out of the Alps for being wandering tribes, where did they come from before that?

[Kev]

In 43AD, the Roman Emperor Claudius invaded Britain. How long did it take the Romans to finally conquer Wales?

[dances with badgers]

200 years because they had to stop a lot to take in all the lovely scenary

[Chef Geoff]

78AD, though there was that scrap in that Mansio down the Cardiff  Road, but I guess that didn't count

[Kev]

correct Chef............................. 35 years.....................

Many is the story told of the Romans' attempts to conquer Wales - one of the most notable is of the Legions, under Paulinus in 61AD, turning up on the coast near what we now call Caernarfon, and being faced apparently by thousands of ghosts on the opposing shore, latter day Anglesey. The Legions were spooked by this, Paulinus tore up his orders from the Emperor Nero, and promptly turned his army back the way they'd come.

Having returned to London, Paulinus was ordered for a second time, on peril of his life, to go back and capture Anglesey. Having crossed the water (what we now know as the Menai Straits), the Romans confronted the "ghosts" on the beach - who were in fact pacifist Celtic Druids, with their heads daubed with lime, who put up no resistance to the Roman swords, and were promptly annihilated where they stood.

This was a strategically important capture for the Romans, as the Druids on Anglesey were seen as the spiritual leaders of the Celtic tribes - they also controlled the shipping of gold to and from the Northern parts of Britain.

Various strongholds in Wales continued to resist control for a further 17 years, though, and it was only under Agricola, in 78AD, that the conquest of Wales was finally regarded as being complete.

[Chef Geoff]

  Oh now hang, on where on earth did you dig that bit of rubbish up from? very poetic rubbish I'll give you but rubbish all the same.
The Legions were spooked by this, Paulinus tore up his orders from the Emperor Nero, and promptly turned his army back the way they'd come Who says
Having returned to London Why London, in 61 AD London was no more than a shanty town.
pacifist Celtic Druids That sounds like a new age spin on things.

[Kev]

 
off here ................
http://www.funtrivia.com/

[Chef Geoff]

Oh well that explains it, it's American lol. You wouldn't believe the amount of US tourists who come to Glastonbury and are noticeably shocked when they discover King Arthur is only a Legend

No I'm afraid none of the above statements are true.
Paulinus never withdrew his legions for any other reason than winter.
London was at that time just a small port, the Capital being Colchester.
And the Druids were destroyed as it's believed they had been the central motivating force in resistance to Roman rule. 

[nobby]

I prefer the other story Geoff

[Chef Geoff]

I'd move to America then

[nobby]

AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES NO SUCH THING AS KING ARTHUR ...... .....

[Kev]

 

King Arthur was Real?    September 23, 1998
by Amélie A. Walker
Possible evidence of the existence of Arthur, the legendary warrior king, has been found at Tintagel in Cornwall. A Cornish slate with sixth-century engravings was found in July on the eastern terraces of Tintagel on the edge of a cliff overlooking the place traditionally known as Merlin's Cave. It was discovered under broken pottery and glass from the late sixth or seventh centuries during the re-excavations of an area last dug in the 1930s.

The 8 inch by 14 inch slate bears two inscriptions. The older, upper letters have been broken off and cannot be deciphered. The lower inscription, translated by Charles Thomas of the University of Glasgow, reads "Pater Coliavi ficit Artognov--Artognou, father of a descendant of Coll, has had this built." The inscription is basically in Latin, perhaps with some primitive Irish and British elements, according to Thomas. The British name represented by the Latin Atrognov is Arthnou. Geoffrey Wainwright of English Heritage says that the name is close enough to refer to Arthur, the legendary king and warrior. Thomas, however, believes that we must dismiss ideas that the name is associated with King Arthur. Christopher Morris, professor of archaeology at the University of Glasgow and the director of the excavations, feels that the script does not necessarily refer to Arthur, because King Arthur first entered the historical domain in the twelfth century.

The slate, part of a collapsed wall, was reused as a drain cover in the sixth century. The first secular inscription ever found at a site from the Dark Ages in England, the find demonstrates that Latin literacy and the Roman way of life survived the collapse of Roman Britain. It is the first evidence that the skills of reading and writing were handed down in a nonreligious context, according to Morris.

Also found were sherds of Mediterranean amphorae, large vessels used for storing and transporting commodities, and a cache of fragments from a single glass vessel. The latter are from a large glass flagon of a type not found elsewhere in Britain or Ireland during this period, but found in Malaga and Cadiz from the sixth or seventh century. The find indicates, for the first time, a direct link between Spain and Western Britain at this time.

Tintagel has come to be associated with King Arthur as his birthplace, depicted by the Welsh monk Geoffrey of Monmouth in A History of the Kings of Britain (ca. 1139), and renewed by Alfred Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King in the 1870s.

The Tintagel Excavations are a joint project sponsored by English Heritage and the University of Glasgow.