In Search of the Dark Ages Quotes

“The first people in Britain were nomadic hunters, food gatherers, who were followed in around 3500 BC by settlers who first cultivated land and raised crops. These people were of Celtic stock and spoke a Celtic language, the distant ancestor of today’s Welsh, Cornish and Breton.”
― Michael Wood, In Search of the Dark Ages

“In about 75 BC a new wave of settlers invaded Britain. We call them the Belgae, as the Romans did. They came from a part of France called by the Romans Gallia Belgica. They were great metalworkers and produced gold, silver, bronze and iron ornaments of marvellous workmanship; they also revolutionised agriculture by inventing a new, heavy plough.”
― Michael Wood, In Search of the Dark Ages

“century law code; the predecessor of Southampton was Hamwih;”
― Michael Wood, In Search of the Dark Ages