ABSTRACT
The expeditions of Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC and the invasion and conquest of Britain by the Romans in AD 43 mean that for the first time there is documentary evidence to assist us in the interpretation of the landscape. This evidence is, and will remain for centuries, fragmentary, slight, and as difficult to interpret as the archaeological evidence which has been our sole guide so far. It does however provide us with a second, independent and complementary guide, and the two, taken together, do reduce considerably the risks of misinterpretation.
