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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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00 B.C. and ending only a short half-century or so before the Roman arrived. The first tocome were the Goidels, with whom we have no concern;then came the Brythons, who inhabited at the arrival ofCassar all Britain north of the Thames; and, finally, southof the Thames were the Belgae. Nottinghamshire, ofcourse, did not then exist as a county, but the use of theterm must be excused because of its obvious convenience.So, then, Nottinghamshire was inhabited by a Brythonictribe called the Coritani, a peace-loving, sparsely-scattered race, who offered no resistance to the Romaninvaders, and of whom we know but the one fact—thatthey existed. It seems hardly necessary to point outthat Julius Cassars two exploratory expeditions do notconcern us. They were passing incidents whoseimportance has been greatly exaggerated by the survivalof the Roman leaders account of his little war. It wasnot until a hundred years later that the Roman worldrealised that there were still lands unconquered to the
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Nottinghamshire i8i west. The realisation was father to the accomplishment,and within a very few years—by A.D. 50 to be precise—the Roman wave had passed over Nottinghamshire, and,what is more, had passed over very lightly. Historians of the Romano-British period ignoreNottinghamshire as containing nothing meriting notice.But the truth is that few or no efforts have been madeto find out more. There are four acknowledged Romanstations within our borders, and of these two remaintotally unexplored, the exact sites even unknown, whileonly tentative explorations have been undertaken on theremaining two sites. Yet, while it can claim no suchimportant station as Ratae or Lindum within its borders,Nottinghamshire cannot really be ignored, for it occupiesan intermediary position in Roman Britain between thehardy north, where there was seldom peace, and thefertile and peaceful south, where the colonists could livea life more congenial to their southern desires. Afterall negative fact is oft

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