Some corrections...

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:00:06 +0100, Andrew Oakley
wrote:
previously pacified by the Romans from around 50-400AD but the Romans
withdrew to southern Europe to defend their empire against the Turks
and Vandals from around 300AD).

Sorry, got my tribes confused there. It was the Goths, not the Turks.
The Turks were involved in the fall of the Roman Eastern Empire
(Byzantium and Constantinople/Istanbul) in the 1400s; it was the Goths
who spearheaded the fall of the Roman Western Empire in the late 300s.

The native UK tribes (such as mine, the Britons, and others such
as the Celts, Danes or Angles)

And by "native" I mean "nearer than Rome". The Danes and Angles were
relative newcommers when compared to the Britons and Celts. The Angles
arrived around 200BC in the form of the Belgae, got knocked into shape
when the Romans arrived and popped up again as the Anglo-Saxons in the
400s; the Danes (Vikings/Norse) followed in the late 500s.

Whereas us Britons had been there for thousands of years (pretty much
since the end of the ice age around 10,000BC), the Celts since about
900-500BC (the Celts probably arrived from Spain). Anything beyond
500BC is a bit difficult to trace, though. Us Britions were still
shagging sheep and worshiping the Sun whilst the Egyptians were
working out the value of Pi, so it wasn't like we were clever enough
to write anything down.

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Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK