The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[authun]

Many place names in an extensive area all have Germanic endings (-ey), which means the place was an island. From the layout of these places he believes there was a vast lake there. The problem is a Roman road runs smack bang through the middle of that large area. Therefore, they must have been called those names before the lake dried up, which would be long before the Romans came.

Hi Tarbicus

That's only true in part. Gelling's book Place Names in the Landscape states that ēg place names are not entirely dictated by topography.

In addition, as Win Scutt concedes, it is necessary to show that the land was dry in the post roman period. There are many examples of areas being flooded during the late roman marine transgression. In some parts of the Humber Wetlands, roman artefacts are found under 3m of marine deposit. It is entirely possible for a road to be built on dry land only for that road to become submerged later and for AS settlements to spring up around the edges.

However, in my opinion it has to be shown that there was a settlement in the pre roman iron age in the first place. Otherwise it is just a name with no date.

best

Harry Amphlett