13/47 Destruction fell even on Canterbury, where the legends tell of intercourse between Briton or Saxon, and on London, where ecclesiastical writers fondly place fifth- and sixth-century bishops. Both sites lay empty and untenanted for many years. Only in the far west, at Exeter or at Caerwent, does our evidence allow us to guess at a continuing Romano-British life. If this represents the Romano-British village on Watling Street called Bannaventa, near Daventry in Northants (_Victoria Hist._ i. 186), the raids must have covered all the midlands: see _Engl. |