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It is likely that some of the Celts, before the coming of the later / invaders, had begun to descend from their hill villages and to occupy / the river valleys and clearings in the woodlands; but we do not know / much of their story, and have to piece it together as best we may / from the signs of their residence which they have left. Both before / the Roman occupation of Britain and also for two or more centuries / afterwards, we do not know at all clearly what went on in our island.
But about the Saxons, nearly from their first coming to England, we / have written evidence to give us information. We know something of / how their village societies were formed, and these societies are / extremely interesting to us, because we can see from them how our / present way of living came about, how the landowner and the tenant, / the squire and the agricultural labourer came to be.