. The camp of refuge;. bankers werelittle better than savages (Gooch, Agriculture of Cam-bridgeshire, p. 289). If we carry this evidence backto the period of Herewards defence we find there isgood reason to beheve that these people were asuntamed by the civilisation that surrounded them ascould well be. A passage from the early historian ofRamsey (c. 86) seems to point to the existence ofBritish, that is pre-Saxon, robbers in the fenland atthe time of Knut. The English tenants of an oppres-sive Danish thegn say, Quousque alienigenae istiusvitam donandum gratis Britonibus latronibus continuisno
. The camp of refuge;. bankers werelittle better than savages (Gooch, Agriculture of Cam-bridgeshire, p. 289). If we carry this evidence backto the period of Herewards defence we find there isgood reason to beheve that these people were asuntamed by the civilisation that surrounded them ascould well be. A passage from the early historian ofRamsey (c. 86) seems to point to the existence ofBritish, that is pre-Saxon, robbers in the fenland atthe time of Knut. The English tenants of an oppres-sive Danish thegn say, Quousque alienigenae istiusvitam donandum gratis Britonibus latronibus continuisnoctium excubiis ad nostrum dedecus et damnumconservamus. An unconquered people, fighting ontheir OMTi ground with their own weapons and intheir own familiar fashion, could, if situated as thefenlanders were situated, make a stout resistancewhen they were properly led. Arms and armour, and, above all things, boats, havebeen from time to time dug up in the fens as silentwitnesses to the doings of these times; and in some. KENNEPHS BOUNDARY—STONE IN WELLAND WASH
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