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Informal Romanisation Strabo was a Roman historian from the time of 30AD. He described Britain as "weak" and said that the Romans "could have taken and conquered Britain any time". The Romans felt that it "was not worth the price" to invade & conquer Britain. Through the trade links with Gaul and Rome, it "practically made the whole island Roman property". Through trade and influence, Britain gained a large part of the Roman way of life from Roman artefacts. Modern day excavations have turned up a wide range of artefacts, from coins to jewellery. We know that coinage was a type of artefact that was traded with Britain. No coin mints have been found in Britain between the periods 54BC to 43AD. Yet most coins found today relate to the later part of that period. Two types of coins have been discovered, gold coins and coins that are worth slightly...

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