8/17 In the twenty years' excavation of the site, no Celtic inscription has emerged. Instead, we have proof that the lower classes wrote Latin for all sorts of purposes. Had they known Celtic well, it is hardly credible that they should not have sometimes written in that language, as the Gauls did across the Channel. A Gaulish potter of Roman date could scrawl his name and record, _Sacrillos avot_, 'Sacrillus potter', on the outside of a mould.[1] No such scrawl has ever been found in Britain. No such letter was used in Roman Britain, though it occurs on earlier British coins. |