Perhaps the villagers knew little enough of the Roman civilization in its higher aspects.

Perhaps they did not speak Latin fluently or habitually.

They may well have counted among the less Romanized of the southern Britons.

Yet round them too hung the heavy inevitable atmosphere of the Roman material civilization.
[Footnote 1: The Glastonbury village was excavated in and after 1892 at intervals; a full account of the finds is now being issued by Bulleid and Gray (_The Glastonbury Lake Village_, vol.i, 1911), with a preface by Dr.R.Munro.The finds themselves are mostly at Glastonbury.] [Footnote 2: Described in four quarto volumes, _Excavations in Cranborne Chase, &c._, issued privately by the late General Pitt-Rivers, 1887-98.] [Footnote 3: Vinogradoff, _Growth of the Manor_, p.39.A parallel to the non-Roman burials found by General Pitt-Rivers may be found in the will of a Lingonian Gaul who died probably in the latter part of the first century.

Apparently he was a Roman citizen, and his will is drawn in strict Roman fashion.