[The Romanization of Roman Britain by F. Haverfield]@TWC D-Link bookThe Romanization of Roman Britain CHAPTER II 6/10
159, and _Derbyshire_, i.191.To save frequent references, I may say here that much of the evidence for the following paragraphs is to be found in my articles on Romano-British remains printed in the volumes of this History.
I am indebted to its publishers for leave to reproduce several illustrations from its pages.
For others I refer my readers to the History itself.] [Footnote 2: See my _Military Aspects of Roman Wales_, notes 60 and 82. There was some sort of town life at Carmarthen.] [Footnote 3: The Roman remains discovered west of Exeter are few and mostly later than A.D.250.
No town or country-house or farm or stretch of roadway has ever been found here.
The list of discoveries includes only one early settlement on Plymouth harbour, another near Bodmin, of small size, and a third, equally small and of uncertain date, on Padstow harbour; some scanty vestiges of tin-mining, principally late; two milestones (if milestones they be) of the early fourth century, the one at Tintagel church and the other at St.Hilary; and some scattered hoards and isolated bits.
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