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The first inhabitants

christianromandelprete — 2025-02-23 11:51:01 UTC

The first inhabitants of Stonehenge came from Wales. Not quite around the corner: between the hills of Wessex, where the famous megalithic site is located, and the western region of Great Britain there is a gap of about one hundred and fifty kilometres. This was discovered by British archaeologists who examined the remains of charred bones, the result of cremation, found in burials dating back 5.000 years around Stonehenge.

The Celts

christianromandelprete — 2025-02-23 12:09:36 UTC

The Celts were a number of tribes who had similar languages and religions. Usually they had blue eyes and red hair.

They lived in Western and Central Europe, including Britain and Ireland. The Celts arrived in Britain by boat from Germany between 1500 BC and 400 BC. They lived in Britain from roughly 750 BC to AD 43. This is during the end of the Bronze Age and through the Iron age until the Roman invasion of Britain.

The Romans

christianromandelprete — 2025-02-23 12:24:34 UTC

When the Romans, with Julius Caesar, arrived and conquered part of Britain in the middle of the 1st century BC, they immediately set to work building roads, fortresses, villas according to Italic customs.

The Romans controlled most of present-day England and Wales and founded a large number of towns, which still exist today and preserve many Roman-era buildings.

In an attempt to keep out the Celtic tribes that inhabited Scotland, the Romans built a dividing wall called Hadrian's Wall, named after the emperor of the time.

The Anglo-Saxons

christianromandelprete — 2025-02-23 13:33:42 UTC

The Anglo-Saxons were a group of people who colonised Britain in the early Middle Ages, founding what is now England, and spoke the Old English language. They were Germanic settlers, mainly Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who came to the British Isle in the 5th century from the European continent, mainly from present-day North Germany, Friesland, and Denmark. In England their culture replaced the Gallo-Roman culture of the island's indigenous Britons, who were driven westwards and northwards. In time, the Anglo-Saxon peoples merged into a single people, who took the name of the English. Their language simultaneously evolved into Middle English and then into Modern English.

The Vikings

christianromandelprete — 2025-02-23 13:44:15 UTC

The appellation Viking identifies the Norse warriors from Scandinavia who, aboard vessels known as drakkars, raided the coasts of the British Isles, France, southern Italy and Sicily and other parts of Europe between the late 8th and 11th centuries. This period in European history is typically referred to as the Viking Age.