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Hello and welcome back once more to the History Extra End of Roman Britain Special Podcast Series. This is Episode 5

and my name is David Musgrove. I'm your host for the whole series. This time around I'm talking to

Dr James Gerard of the University of Newcastle who is a particular expert on the changing face of Britain

as we move from the Roman to the post-Roman period.

The first thing I challenged him to do in our conversation was to give us a broad brush picture of the end of Roman Britain as he sees it.

The end of Roman Britain is several things. There's the political end, which is recorded historically

in various sources, the usurpation of Constantine III in 407, the defeat of his rebellion,

and the failure of the central imperial government to re-establish control.

Thus, as far as we're aware, a fairly clear-cut end.

Of course, things are a bit more complicated than that, because we know that perhaps 40, 50 years later people in Britain

were appealing to Roman authorities in Gaul in France to send

support and troops to Britain. So, although it looks clear-cut to us, it may not have been quite as

clear-cut at the time. Then you've got, if you like, the archaeological end of Roman Britain,

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