[Footnote 1:  The Glastonbury village was excavated in and after 1892 at intervals; a full account of the finds is now being issued by Bulleid and Gray (The Glastonbury Lake Village, vol. i, 1911), with a preface by Dr. R. Munro.  The finds themselves are mostly at Glastonbury.]

[Footnote 2:  Described in four quarto volumes, Excavations in Cranborne Chase, &c., issued privately by the late General Pitt-Rivers, 1887-98.]

[Footnote 3:  Vinogradoff, Growth of the Manor, p. 39.  A parallel to the non-Roman burials found by General Pitt-Rivers may be found in the will of a Lingonian Gaul who died probably in the latter part of the first century.  Apparently he was a Roman citizen, and his will is drawn in strict Roman fashion.  But its last clause orders the burning of all his hunting apparatus, spears and nets, &c., on his funeral pyre, and thus betrays the Gaulish habit (Bruns, p. 308, ed. 1909).]

The facts which I have tried to set forth in the preceding paragraphs seem to me to possess more weight than is always allowed.  Some writers, for instance M. Loth, speak as if the external environment of daily life, the furniture and decorations and architecture of our houses, or the clothes and buckles and brooches of our dress, bore no relation to the feelings and sentiments of those that used them.  That is not a tenable proposition.  The external fabric of life is not a negligible quantity but a real factor.  On the one hand, it is hardly credible that an unromanized folk should adopt so much of Roman things as the British did, and yet remain uninfluenced.  And it is equally incredible that, while it remained unromanized, it should either care or understand how to borrow all the externals of Roman life.  The truth of this was clear to Tacitus in the days when the Romanization of Britain was proceeding.  It may be recognized in the east or in Africa to-day.  Even among the civilized nations of the present age the recent growth of stronger national feelings has been accompanied by a preference for home-products and home-manufactures and a distaste for foreign surroundings.

CHAPTER VI

ROMANIZATION IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LAND-SYSTEM

I have dealt with the language and the material civilization of the province of Britain.  I pass to a third and harder question, the administrative and legal framework of local Romano-British life.  Here we have to discuss the extent to which the Roman town-system of the colonia and municipium, and the Roman land-system of the villa penetrated Britain.  And, first, as to the towns.  Britain, we know, contained five municipalities of the privileged Italian type.  The colonia of Camulodunum (Colchester) and the municipium of Verulamium (St. Albans), both in the south-east of the island, were established soon after the Claudian conquest.  The colonia