'Britain's first pre-Roman planned town' found near Reading

BBC ^ | August 17, 2011 | Louise Ord

[decimon]

In other words, the Romans took over an existing civilization.

Maybe. I think if you'd traveled Britain, Gaul or the Iberian or Italian peninsulas then you'd have found a tribalistic patchwork of 'civilizations.'

[colorado tanker]

I would have been shocked if the British tribes hadn't been building towns. IMHO, the main reason so few pre-Roman towns have been found is it would have made sense for those same towns to continue to be occupied after the Roman conquest.

German tribes were building towns on a grid and they were never (permanently) occupied by Rome.