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Sir: In which century does Elisabeth Luard picture Saxons settled

under the Roman '1 married an air hostess. I can tell you the charm and graciously efficient service very soon went to pot.' yoke protected by forts on the Trent?

Hadrian's wall was begun around 122 AD and restored around 163 AD. This was some 300 years before any significant Saxon set- tlement in Nottinghamshire. The three `comings of the English' were not until 425 to 450 AD, during the last few years of Roman rule of Britain.

Gerry W. Ricks

9 Norridge View, Warminster, Wiltshire