WI the Romans never made contact with Britain?

Let's say the Romans felt it wasn't worth their efforts to conquer Britain, maybe they never saw it as more than a backwater?

Would Britain have remained an Iron Age community until sometime into the middle ages?
 

Marc

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Simply: The Romans knew of and traded for tin. One of the reasons they felt it was worth their time to conquer Britain; along with really, really, hating Druids (which is so counter to normal attitudes and behavior by the Romans in regards to other religions that you do have to wonder).
 

Marc

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Let's say the Romans felt it wasn't worth their efforts to conquer Britain, maybe they never saw it as more than a backwater?

Would Britain have remained an Iron Age community until sometime into the middle ages?

To give your question more consideration: Even without Roman legions invading and occupying, the southern parts of Britain are going to strongly influenced by Roman society via commerce, the occasional bits of piracy and certain retaliation, and eventually by Christian missionaries. Further, the Germanic tribes will likely still enact their invasion of Britain from the late 4th century on (if not earlier), those Jutes, Angles, and Saxons.
 
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To give your question more consideration: Even without legions invading and occupying, the southern parts of Britain are going to strongly influenced by Roman society via commerce, the occasional piracy and retaliation, and eventually by Christian missionaries. Further, the Germanic tribes will likely still enact their invasion of Britain from the late 4th century on (if not earlier), those Jutes, Angles, and Saxons.
I heard that in southern britian they were already forming cities and were transationing into a romanish techonlgy by the second invasion
 
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