Originally Posted by
Caligula Caesar
By the way, using Britain may not be the best example. I remember watching a documentary on Britain which argued that the Saxon Invasion never happened based on a lack of archaeological evidence for it and the fact that the urban centres actually seem to have flourished. And apparently the Forts of the Saxon Shore were not built for defense, as they seem to be harder to get out of than in.
(btw, I never said I believed the documentary. I don't know enough about the subject)