The End of Roman Britain

The end of roman rule in britain ended between four o seven and four ten a d. The written evidence is nearly unanimous in presenting this nd as a catastrophic event caused by barbarian, particularly saxon incursions. Archaeologists have now realized that there is a chronological dislocation between the end of r Roman life and the arrival of the saxons. In other words, rRoman britain was already mostly dead when saxons began to settle in large numbers.