\'The myth of Celtic and Roman Britain\'

[Alanus]

Craig,

You and I were typing at the same time. hock:
Yup. Oceans and rivers were the safer and quicker routes that produced ports like pre-Roman Londinium. Land routes were far more dangerous. Even in the much-maligned Victorian era, so-called "explorers" and adventurers were picked-off in the high passes along the Silk Road. The Road was the worst of it. Indic gemstones, for instance, once having reached north of the trade road, were then carried down the Syr Drya, then hopped across two waterways to the Pontus Euxine and up the Ister into north-western Europe. These gemstones were sprinkled throughout artworks and swords in the socalled "Migration-era" products.