Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Medicus matt]

You're right. On any objective timeline third centyr is not "late, but the Anglo-Saxons didn't just show up at the end of the forth century and run the Romans off. Their constant pressure resulted in the construction of a string of impressive forts (some still there) along the "Saxon Shore" as well as an administrative reorganization of Roman Briton to facilitate a better response to the Germanic raiders.

Like the greater Roman Empire, the "end" of Roman Briton was a long, slow process. The building of the Walls--both Antonine and Hadrian's--may mark the "high water mark" of Roman Briton with everything after that tilting toward an ever-quickening decline and fall.

Hear this sound?
"Schluuuuuurp, schlluuuuuuurp"?

That's my granny sucking eggs. :wink:

And there are a number of debatable points in your statements (did the 'Anglo-Saxons' really run the romans off at all...was there ever really an 'Anglo-Saxon invasion'....were the Shore Forts really forts and were they really built in response to Germanic incursions etc etc), all of which deserve threads of their own, and probably already command them somewhere in RAT.

Good luck with the knee op Ron. I've had a couple of those myself. All the best.