julius caesar came to britain in 54 bc. a hundred years later the romans came again, and this time they stayed for four hundred yearswhen the romans came to britain, they found it a land of forest and swamp.
the romans were fond of warm water baths, and the city of bath owes its origin to the possession of naturally warmed spring.
the romans didn’t need carpets — they had central heat ing under the floors of their houses. so they decorated their floors with mosaics. the mosaic of a dancing girl was found in a roman villa in susses. it is over 1,700 years old.
the norman invaders brought with them norman archi tecture (you can still see a number of norman churches and castles), and the norman-frenchlanguage, which over the years mixed withanglo-saxonto form the modem english language
