ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. In conclusion, author may briefly review the cost to Rome of the maintenance of the British province and the profits obtained from it. Also author have seen in the earlier chapters something of the people who lived and worked in Roman Britain, their way of life and the benefits and disadvantages which accrued to them from the Roman occupation. Other benefits directly accruing to Rome were those derived from the exploitation of mineral resources and those from the various activities of the imperial estates, land owned by the emperor. Britain also provided a new and largely unexploited market for goods from elsewhere in the empire and so, through the widening activities of merchants, and the additional taxes which they consequently paid, helped to increase imperial revenues, further swollen in turn by customs duties exacted on the goods passing the frontiers or the provincial boundaries.
