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Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain

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  1. Which Roman governor completed the conquest of much of northern Britain and won the Battle of Mons Graupius around AD 83?
  2. What was the name of the Roman road that ran from Dover through London to Wroxeter?
  3. Which Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia is traditionally believed to have ordered the great earthwork along the border with Wales?
  4. Which Suffolk site yielded an Anglo-Saxon royal ship burial in 1939?
  5. The Anglo-Saxon monk who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731, is known as what?
  6. Which Danish-ruled area of eastern and northern England was governed under Viking law after the treaty with Alfred?
  7. Under which Roman emperor did the conquest of Britain begin in earnest in AD 43?
  8. Which Neolithic village on the Orkney mainland was uncovered by a storm in 1850?
  9. What was the name of the queen of the Iceni who rebelled against Roman rule?
  10. Which Viking attack of AD 793 on a Northumbrian island monastery is usually taken as the start of the Viking Age in Britain?
  11. Which English city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis when the Romans built baths and a temple in the Avon valley?
  12. Which Roman emperor's reign saw the start of a frontier wall across northern Britain in AD 122?
  13. What was the Witan in Anglo-Saxon England?
  14. Which king of Wessex is the only native-born English monarch to be called 'the Great'?

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