ROMANIZATION IN MATERIAL CIVILIZATION From language we pass to material civilization.

Here is a far wider field of evidence, provided by buildings, private or public, their equipment and furniture, and the arts and small artistic or decorative objects.

On the whole this evidence is clear and consistent.

The material civilization of the province, the external fabric of its life, was Roman, in Britain as elsewhere in the west.

Native elements succumbed almost wholesale to the conquering foreign influence.