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Britain's economy did not collapse after the Romans left, sediment core analysis finds

Researchers have examined a sediment core from the Roman town and metal production center of Aldborough in Yorkshire, revealing metal production did not collapse immediately after the Romans left ...
New Scientist

Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire

When the Roman Empire withdrew from Britain, the result was not chaos and economic collapse. The metals industry in what is now northern England continued and even expanded in the subsequent centuries ...
PBS

New Evidence That Roman Life Continued After the Empire's Fall

New dating shows a Roman villa mosaic was laid in the 5th century, reshaping post-Roman Britain. Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the ...
Archaeology

Britain's Economy Remained Surprisingly Robust After Roman Collapse

ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...