10 Facts About Sub-Roman Britain

Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.

The first reference to this rescript is written by the 6th-century Byzantine scholar Zosimus and is found in the middle of a discussion of southern Italy; no further mention of Sub-Roman Britain is made, which has led some, though not all, modern academics to suggest that the rescript does not apply to Sub-Roman Britain, but to Bruttium in Italy.

The Gallic chronicles, Chronica Gallica of 452 and Chronica Gallica of 511, say prematurely that "Sub-Roman Britain, abandoned by the Romans, passed into the power of the Saxons" and provide information about St Germanus and his visit or visits to Sub-Roman Britain, though again this text has received considerable academic deconstruction.

Sub-Roman Britain based his account of the Sub-Roman period in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum heavily on Gildas, though he tried to provide dates for the events Gildas describes.

Excavations of settlements have revealed possible changes in social structures, and to what extent life in Sub-Roman Britain continued unaltered in certain pockets into the early medieval period.

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Sub-Roman Britain gives information on the British diet, dress and entertainment.

Sub-Roman Britain writes that Britons were killed, emigrated or enslaved but gives no idea of numbers.

Two contrasting models of the end of sub-Roman Britain have been described by Richard Reece as "decline and immigration" and "invasion and displacement".

Various dates have been proposed to mark the end of Roman Sub-Roman Britain, including the end of Roman currency coinage importation in 402, Constantine III's rebellion in 407, the rebellion mentioned by Zosimus in 409, and the Rescript of Honorius in 410.

Western Sub-Roman Britain has attracted those archaeologists who wish to place King Arthur as a historical figure.