Towards the end of the Iron Age there was an ever-increasing migration of Celtic tribes from continental Europe into Britain to escape the spread of the Roman army northwards throughout their homelands. Dorset, like other south coast maritime counties, must have seen more of these refugees from the spread of the Roman empire than most.

The period known as the "Iron Age" in Britain, that of the Celtic tribes, came to an end with invasion by the 2nd Augustan legion under Vespasian in AD43.

Roman historians, wrote of vespasian's invasion of Britain that the legion overcame "two very formidable tribes and over twenty towns, together with the Isle of Wight". Dorset must have seen a considerable part of the warfare as Maiden Castle near Dorchester was one of the biggest and strongest of the towns the Romans captured.

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