Historical And Cultural Change

[poliphilo]

 Carbon dating on materials from the Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire has shown that the estate's owner commissioned and installed a nice new Roman-style mosaic floor in the mid fifth century- which is a couple of generations after the legions left Britain and Roman influence is supposed to have come to an end.

Two things:

1. The accepted historical narratives are full of gaps and mistakes and in constant need of revision.

2. Historical and cultural change doesn't necessarily come abruptly and catastrophically (as we fear) but can also be gradual and organic...

Comments

[cmcmck]

It's becomong obvious that such art was still being made years after the Romans 'left'

Our local one at Viroconium (Wroxeter) was clearly a working town for decades after.

[poliphilo]

We know so little about that period...