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multi plicity of small fields that were enclosed when farms were worked
by horses and oxen. Some hedges, and areas of woodland, must be
retained because they provide shelter and windbreaks for livestock
and crops, and because they provide a habitat for the wild life which
is a part of the balance of nature, and without which efficient farming
cannot continue. Almost all farmers now accept this.

                       ÒÅÊÑÒ XI / TEXT XI
       CONCLUSION. RELICS OF THE ROMAN
                OCCUPATION
         Britain was a Roman province from the first
 century A.D. until the beginning of the 5th c. A.D. The
 area occupied covered south, east and midland Britain
 and stretched north to the lowlands of Scotland, waste
 over the whole Wales, but did not include Devan and
 Cornwell. Most of the evidence for reconstructuring the
 life of Roman Britain consists of objects in museums, and     ñîñòîèò
 of buildings and monuments still to be seen.The conquest
 was achieved by force of arms and until the end the
 Romans had to keep armies on the frontiers especially in
 the North. We shall find therefore that in the North of
 Britain and in Wales the relics are mostly military. While
 Roman soldiers were defending the outposts of the
 Empire against Picts and Saxons (Britons) a kind of
 provincial Roman life was developing in lowland Britain.
         Various kinds of towns existed in Britain under the
 Roman occupation. Among them was London, probably
 the commercial capital. Not all the Roman-British people
 lived in towns. Many lived in native villages. Some well-     îáåñïå÷åííûå
 to-do people lived in the country estates that we know as
 villas. The villa was a self-supporting farm and grew its
 own food. In some villas small industries were carried on
 (in a farm in Gloucestershire the local wool production
 has been found). The work on the farm was done by
 slaves. The Roman occupation ceased in Britain because
 troops were withdrawn to try in vain to defend the rest
 of the Empire against the barbarians.                         èìïåðèÿ;
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