Summary
These points are important as an antidote to the numerous references to England and Scotland which project the history of both countries back to a time when neither existed
Brittonic place-names are geographically spread, albeit to varying degrees, all over the island of Britain, from the southern coast of what is now England to the north of what is now Scotland. However, neither England nor Scotland, whether as political entities or as homelands to the English and the Scots, would exist until at least half a millennium after the raids of Julius Caesar brought Britain and the Britons into history.
Caesar raided the south east of Britain, not the south east of England, just as he conquered Gaul and not France. Following the Claudian invasion of Britain, the Romans continued to push further north, but they never ‘crossed into Scotland’, a land they would never have heard of. There was no geographical entity called Wales either, although continuity from the Britons to the ‘Welsh’ has already been referred to and should be borne in mind.
These points are important as an antidote to the numerous references to England and Scotland which project the history of both countries back to a time when neither existed. These, just like the endless references to ‘Celts’, take place at the expense of the Brittonic inhabitants who, during the pre-Roman and Roman eras, occupied the island of Britain from one end to the other.