For all what the Romans were have supposed to have done they did like to over egg it. This is why Britain BC is really fascinating for me and I'm just getting into it. There was a programme made on one of the history channels called 'Britain BC' (researched by Francis Pryor) and it is a real eye opener, it was for me at least. For too long in the UK Britains history has been started from when the Romans invaded but as has been proved the Romans nearly wiped out a History thousands of years older than their own.

Britain for example had, laws, civilisation, Roads plus other things the Romans were given credit for. There is a myth that farming was brought to England from the Middle East, this has been discounted as well. There is a copper mine in North Wales that was thought to be Roman but on further digging it is now proved to be 3,500 years old at least and proves that Britain was trading with mainland Europe as the copper lumps and the tin from Cornwall were taken to Europe and made into swords/jewellery and other stuff. Because Britains at that time were using Celtic swords jewellery does not make them Celtic it means they were trading.

One of the most fascinating piece of research is through the DNA and it sold me to the cause, lol. The DNA they used was the Female DNA that exists in all of us and it provides an unbroken chain and is more reliable and Oxford University carried out the research. They research the 9,000 year old skeleton at cheddar gorge. The DNA collected was compared to the local village and was found to still exist near exactly in local people today. What does this prove? It proves that ancient Britons were not wiped out as was thought before. There a few books on it as I said before. I'm no expert but this is fascinating. As for the first Britons there is a definite link with Spain, or rather the Catalan region this would also explain why the languages were similar between Britain and mainland Europe. The term 'Celt' or 'Celtic' was first seen in 4oo BC and then not until the 17th century if I understood that part right. I'm not the expert that should be explaining this but if you interested Download the programme from Digital Distractions and see it for yourself.