Introduction

The roman emperar claudius invaded briton in the year ah d forty three. The year 84 ten is generally sited as the traditional date of the end of roman briton. But what does that mean, and what actually happened? Was there a power vacuum, violence in society, collapse? What did people actually carry on living a characteristically roman way of life? And was there a wave of incomes from continental europe, the anglo saxans, soon after the end ofroman rule?