The Votadini exodus to Wales

[Arturus Uriconium]

That's difficult to say. What constitutes a 'dragon' and what a 'mythical monster'? Aren't there Celtic legends with dragons that can hardly be attributed to the Romans? I assume that 'dragons' are culturally pre-Roman in Europe.

If my memory serves me right from research I did for a TV show, apart from China the dragon first appears in Mesopotamia and also Egypt. It is a creature found throughout the world in its various forms. In some cultures it may have borrowed a form from others, but it was probably there as an unseen entity to explain such natural occurrences as thunderstorms as well as the spread of deceases. So whilst the British may not have had a visual representation of the creature until the Romans arrived they very well could have had it in their mythology.

Mak