CHRONOLOGY OF THE ROMANIZATION From this consideration of the evidence available to illustrate the Romanization of Britain, I pass to the inquiry how far history helps us to trace out the chronology of the process.

A few facts and probabilities emerge as guides.

Intercourse between south-eastern Britain and the Roman world had already begun before the Roman conquest in A.D.43.

Latin words, as I have said above (p.

24), had begun to appear on the native British coinage, and Arretine pottery had found its way to such places as Foxton in Cambridgeshire, Alchester in Oxfordshire, and Southwark in Surrey.[1] The establishment of a _municipium_ at Verulamium (St.Albans) sometime before A.D.60, and probably even before A.D.