In some areas conquered groups nursed vengeance in their hearts and bided their time, ready to turn on their oppressors, while others lived in fear of imminent attack. Further north among the hills and moors of the highland zone, more tribes led a still harder life, snatching a scanty living from the poorer soil or leading a pastoral existence with their flocks and herds. No foreign imports found their way to them, even iron tools were a luxury, and some still used the stone axes or flint blades of their forefathers.’ Joan Liversidge, Britain in the Roman Empire Britain and the British struck terror into the hearts of Romans in 55 BC – not into the heart of Julius Caesar perhaps, but those of the rank and file faced with the prospect of invading the place. We can imagine their fear, unfocused and amorphous, and all the darker as a result. The fear born of suspicion, of the sort that citizens of modern, civilised states often harbour about places where things are done differently, by people with beliefs they regard as unholy or at least unclean.
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