The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[Robert Vermaat]

My reason to bring up Coates was to discuss several of his point about Anglo-Saxon-British interaction.
His treatment of the historical sources is not correct. Starting with Gildas, who writes of Romano-Britons being driven from their cities up into the hills and caves where they starve of hunger, while behind them all their cities burn. Of course, no-one believes that, and archaeology disproves it. Yet Coates uses this to support a ‘vacated east’.

Actually, archaeology doesn't disprove it. Archaeology supports it.

No Mike, archaeology does not support Gildas' claim that all cities burned and were deserted.

I agree with your post about the cities, not about that wave of immigrants pushing west, but I wás referring to Gildas apocalyptic view ..