But other portions of the same counties, southern Kent, northern Sussex, western Somerset, show very few traces of any settled life at all.

The midland plain, and in particular Warwickshire,[1] seems to have been the largest of these 'thin spots'.

Here, among great woodlands and on damp and chilly clay, there dwelt not merely few civilized Roman-Britons, but few occupants of any sort.
[Footnote 1: _Victoria Hist.

of Warwickshire_, i.

228.] And lastly, Romano-British life was on a small scale.