Time Team (TV Series)

Cunetio, Wiltshire (2010)

Phil Harding: Self

Quotes 

• Self - Presenter : Phil, why do you reckon Cunetio eventually disappeared under the ground, whereas other Roman towns like Cirencester survived?

  Phil Harding : Well, the way I see it, Tony, probably in the early Romano-British period, you had a perfectly peaceable, prosperous little community thriving here. Everybody going about their local business, minding their own business, and getting on perfectly well. And then in the later Roman period, you have the might of the bureaucratic, administrative Rome coming here and building this whacking great wall, bringing in their taxation, their administration and all those nasty things. And I reckon that killed the local community. They cluttered off. And then, of course, when the Romans went away, well, the locals didn't want to come back, did they?

  Self - Presenter : So, where did they go?

  Phil Harding : Well, if they're like me, they'd have probably gone to the pub.