Roman Britain

Roman Empire in the middle of the 3d century

The Map of Roman Britain, c. 300 AD

Roads were a fundament of Roman empire

Roman Londinium

An Ancient Roman Villa

Medical instruments from Herculanum

Well-trained Roman army provided extension of the Empire

Roman Military Techniques

Using a catapult

A scorpio

Hadrian’s Wall, the Northern Border of the Roman Empire

Hadrian’s Wall today

Post-Roman Britain

Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain

The Saxons - North-West Germany.
The Angles - Angeln in South-West Denmark.

Great Britain in 400 - 600

Great Britain and Ireland c. 700

Political and administrative institutions

The king (bretwalda)
king’s council (Witan) - chose

Anglo-Saxons, 5th-10th centuries

Futharc script

Early Celtic Christian Monastery in Ireland.

Glendalough. 6th – 10th centuries

Celtic Crosses

Iona Abbey, founded by St. Columba in 563

Christianization of Anglo-Saxons

St. Augustine preaching before king
Ethelbert of Kent