England and the English

The British Isles

English Channel
Great Britain
Ireland
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Population 3.5 1 2.25 5.75 6.5 2.25 5 5.5 9 32.5 51.9

(in millions)

Population
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Population
Standard English Monetary Units
• £1 (1 pound) = 20s (20 shillings)
• 1s (1 shilling) = 12d (12 pence)
• £1 = 120d

• 1 mark is 2/3 £ (13s 4d)

• 1 noble is 1/3 £ (6s, 8d)
Prehistoric Britain
Chun Quoit – Neolithic tomb
Silbury Hill
Late Neolithic mines and ax-head
Excavated Neolithic dwelling
Beaker people
Stonehenge
White Horse at Uffington
Diodorus Siculus (Greek historian):
the Celts looked “like wood-demons, their hair thick
and shaggy like a horse’s mane”
Carl Wark: Celtic hill fort
Celtic decorative armor
Atrebates Parisii
Celtic coins