ROMAN INVASIONS OF BRITAIN

4th – 1st millennium BCE

01 A RICH RESOURCE

Britain, especially the Cornish peninsula, becomes vital for Europe’s supply of tin, which is necessary for the creation of weapons and other equipment during the Bronze Age. Isolated from the continent by the channel, Britain’s tribes nonetheless conduct trade and build diplomacy with their neighbours to the south.

55-54 BCE

JULIUS CAESAR ARRIVES

Julius Caesar launches two punitive raids against tribes