As one of the largest Roman towns in Britain, in 200AD Verulanium may have had a population of 10-20,000. The total population of Britain at the time maybe 2-4 million. Most would have lived and toiled in the ‘countryside’ rather than towns or cities.
It intrigues me that, today, when one passes through the Hertfordshire countryside, one sees a landscape of ranging agricultural fields and meadows relatively empty of people. But two thousand years ago, although the contours would have been the same, it must have been a very ‘busy’ landscape, micro–managed and intensively and constantly worked by people.
“it must have been a very ‘busy’ landscape, micro–managed and intensively and constantly worked by people.”
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Yup, I imagine there’s more than a few places that haven’t yet been dug which will yield more info on past civilizations.