The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1902
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Credit: The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bantes, in the present county of Suffolk ; the Segontiaci occupied the greater part of the present counties of Hampshiic and Berkshire; the Bibroci inhabited a thickly-wooded country containing the celebrated forest of Anderida including a small part of Hampshire and Berkshire, and stretching through the modern counties of Sussex and Surrey into the eastern paits ot Kent; the position of the Ancalites is less certain, but they, perhaps, lay on the north of Berkshire and on the western borders’ of * Middlesex; and if the Cassi were the same tribe that was called by Ptolemy the Catyeuchlani, as is supposed, they formed the link between these other tribes and the Trino- bantes, stretching through the modern counties of Heitfoid, Bedford, and Buckingham. The envoys of these tribes informed Ceesar, ‘that the town of Cassivellaunus was not far oft, surrounded by woods and marshes, and occupied by a laige number of men and cattle. The Britons call by the name of town a place in the fastnesses of the woods surrounded by a mound and trench, and calculated to afford them, a retreat and protection from hostile invasion.* Caesar immediately marched to this place, which he found extremely strong, both bv nature and art; nevertheless, he assailed it at once in two diftei ent quarters. The enemy stood their ground for a tune, but at leno-th gave way before the onset of our men, and abandoned the°town by the opposite side. A great number of cattle were found there, and many of the enemy were slam or taken prisoners in the pursuit. , , It will be seen by reference to a map that Caesar had now received the submission of a very large tract ol country, extending from sea to sea, and completely surrounding the country of the Cantii, in which he had first landed. All these tribes seem to have bargained for protection against Cassiyel- launus, and it is probable that they had been all more or less brought under his rule. This had been the case also with Cantium, or Kent, which was then ruled by four kings or chiefs, whom Ciesar calls Cingetonx, Garvilms, Taximagulus, and Seo-ouax. When Caesar marched across the Thanes, Cassivellaunus, driven from his own country, seems to have formed the project of cutting him oft from the coast, and marching into Kent, he sent to the four Kentish chiefs jus mentioned his orders to assemble their forces immediately, and . Oppidum nutem Britanni vocant, q»«» »1»M '“P***. f.isiu niunierunt, quo, incursioms hostium v tandm c .1, suctvcrunt. Eo pmticiscitur cum lcg.on.ljus .locuni upu]l..=i<0i titque opero muni turn.—Caesar, Bell. Gall, lb