We do not know the date of that event, though we may conjecturally put it before, and perhaps a good many years before, A.D.500.

In any case, an Ogam monument had been set up before it occurred, and the presence of such an object would seem to prove that Celtic things had made their way even into this eastern Romanized town.
[Footnote 1: _Archaeologia_, liv.

233, 441; Rhys and Brynmor Jones, _Welsh People_, pp.

45, 65; _Victoria Hist.

of Hampshire_, i.