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> the historical records in the UK doesn't go back that far - is there much before Roman times?

A bit - the Celtic period went from about 600BC to the Roman invasion, for example, and has left us lots of interesting art and metalwork, which is worth visiting if you ever find yourself at the British Museum.




I really meant the earliest written historical record - which seems to have been made in thge Greek navigator Pytheas in 325BC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas

Which is a long long time after the earliest remaining buildings - which go back well over 3000 years before Pytheas to about 3700BC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar




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