I wholeheartedly agree. About the only viable counterargument is that the earlier coat of paint that, long before, had built megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge, was trampled to death by the later wave of migrants. Hmm, that sounds familiar.
It's interesting that the Romans built an 80 mile canal to drain swampy areas in the middle of what later became England, which was also intended for and used as a transportation link, in the 1st century, and that Roman settlements as well as Romanized locals thrived for hundreds of years. In some places they lingered on, or reemerged, during the Angle/Saxon/Jute invasions, and even later when the Danes arrived.
Whoops, 85 miles (plus some possible/probable lost bits) and 2nd century.
“the only viable counterargument is that the earlier coat of paint that, long before, had built megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge, was trampled to death by the later wave of migrants”
They didn’t have math or the written word.
The mythical Anglo, Saxon, Jute, et al, invasion that never occurred. Most Germanic
people arriving in Britain in pre-Norman times were not “invaders”. They were mercenaries hired by the Roman’s as coast watchers and “lowland” police. The Roman’s despised low, swampy ground confiding it very unhealthy. At this time from the Humber south (East Lindsey) through North Folk and South Folk were low lands considered miasmic by the Romans. Thousands of Anglo-Saxons were hired and imported by Rome. Yes, and later there was undoubtedly additional migration occurring from the original German homelands. The Anglo-Saxon were left to it when the few Romans, but mostly Romano-Celts, upped sticks and went back to Rome (few) or Gaul (most) as the empire started to deflate. The Brits are a true polyglot racially. Scratch a Brit and you get Celt, Roman, Norwegian, Dane, Swede, Anglo, Saxon, Jute, Hollander, Gaullic, Briton, etc. The amazing thing is that these groups did not start to mix genetically ‘til post 1500. Many communities maintained very strong genetic origins well into the twentieth century. The preceeding is just a quick gloss-over. The true origin of the British people is a complex fascinating study.