Dark Ages of London

When London was abandoned..

  Every place, every city has its worse times that people usually don't like to recall or even remember. The capital of United     Kingdom is not an exception this time.

  Historians assume that the last Roman soldier could left Britain in 407 AD, but what happenned next? 

It isn't a very often said fact but at that time London was probably abandoned and we could say that it didn't really exist as a city. The majority of the city was in ruins but archeologists found some evidence that there were people living in London at these hard times. There were mostly inhabitants living by farming or fishing but it's not impossible that there also lived merchants. Unfortunately, due to the troubled and tough nature of times , the merchandise were slaves.

   The city have been known by the celtic name : "Caer-Lundein".

  As I said before : every place has its own "dark times", when life is really tough and hard. But I think we shouldn't forget about it or try to hide it somehow, because history, the truth cannot be long hidden. Sooner or later people will know that their city also has the times it is ashamed of, although I think it shouldn't be. The harder it was it the past the greater progress may be noticed and appreciated, I guess.  

But London was too precious and too well situated to be abandoned forever.

My sources:

http://www.localhistories.org/london.html

http://www.britannia.com/history/londonhistory/darlon.html