[Footnote 3: The English mediaeval chronicles have sometimes been supposed to preserve facts otherwise forgotten about Roman times. So far as I can judge, this is not the case, even with Henry of Huntingdon. Henry, in the later editions of his work, borrowed a few facts from Geoffrey of Monmouth, which are wanting in his first edition (see the All Souls MS.; the truth is obscured in the Rolls Series text). He also preserves one local tradition from Colchester: otherwise he contains nothing which need puzzle any inquirer. Giraldus Cambrensis, when at Rome, saw some manuscript which contained a list of the five provinces of fourth-century Britain--otherwise unknown throughout the Middle Ages (_Archaeol. Oxoniensis_, 1894, p. 224).] But we are moving in a dim land of doubts and shadows. He who wanders here, wanders at his peril, for certainties are few, and that which at one moment seems a fact, is only too likely, as the quest advances, to prove a phantom. It is, too, a borderland, and its explorers need to know something of the regions on both sides of the frontier. I make no claim to that double knowledge. I have merely tried, using such evidence as I can, to sketch the character of one region, that of the Romano-British civilization. INDEX Aldborough (_Isurium_), 56. Arretine pottery, 15. _Avot_, 27. _Bannavem Taberniae_, 63. Bath, 42, 56. Brittany, migration to, 65. Bury, Prof., 66. Caerwent, 50, 56. Canterbury, deserted after the Roman period, 64. Cantonal system in Roman Britain, 50. Carausius, birthplace, 58. Castor pottery, 40. Celtic language in Gaul and Britain, 14, 26. Celto-Roman temples, 30; houses, 31. Christianity as affecting language, 15. Cloth, British, 57. Corbridge Lion, 43. Corn, exported from Britain, 57. Cornwall, Roman remains in, 22. Demetrius of Tarsus in Britain, 28. Devonshire, Roman remains in, 22. Din Lligwy, village at, 37. Frilford, Romano-British house at, 32. Gaulish kingdom of A.D. 258, 17. Geoffrey of Monmouth, 68. Gildas, 64, 66. Glastonbury village, 45. Gorgon at Bath, 41. Henry of Huntingdon, All Souls MS. of, 68 _note_. Hesione and Hercules, 41. _Historia Brittonum_, 67. Houses in Roman Britain, their relation to houses in Gaul and Italy, 31, 34. _Icinos_, 51. Imperial domains in Britain, 49 Kent, origin of name, 29. Late Celtic art, 39. Latin, used in the provinces, 11, 14; in Britain, 24. London, deserted after the Roman period, 64. Magnus Maximus, army of, 66. New Forest pottery, 39. Northleigh, Romano-British house at, 33. Ogam at Silchester, 62. Pergamene style in Roman Gaul, 44. Pitt-Rivers, 45. Plaxtol, inscribed tile from, 27. Punic language in Africa, 14. Ravenna geographer, 52. Riotamus, 65. Samian pottery, 16, 44 _note_. Seebohm, 53.