Except in Kent and the south-eastern region generally, not only coins, but also pottery of the first century are infrequent, and many sites have yielded nothing earlier than about A.D.250.

Despite the ill name that attaches to the third and fourth centuries, they were perhaps for Britain, as for parts of Gaul,[1] a period of progressive prosperity.

Certainly, the number of British country-houses and farms inhabited during the years A.D.

280-350 must have been very large.

Prosperity culminated, perhaps, in the Constantinian Age.