In Egypt at this time the first dynasty was beginning and the first written language was being used – but in Britain we have no such record. Dartmouth’s sheltered harbour would have made it an attractive place for the attacking Celts who came raiding – and eventually settled – between 800 and 500BC. This is the time when the South Hams started to see more concerted settlements and the start of trading using the river, focused on Totnes as a trading post. The Iron Age had begun, and trade with the continent made Dartmouth extremely attractive. Forts were built near Dartmouth and at Noss on the Kingswear side.
When the Romans invaded in the first Century BC the Celts along the Dart seem to have accepted them and actually struck up a successful and profitable trading relationship with them as they developed Exeter as a base.
When the Romans left in the fifth century AD it left a power vacuum which was exploited by the Saxons and the Vikings, who came raiding and by all accounts made it to the Dart in the early eighth century.
Dittisham is rumoured to have been started by an invading Saxon called Dida – Dittisham being a corruption of ‘Dida’s Ham’ or ‘Dida’s Home’. British culture developed, eventually becoming the kingdom of Wessex. It was a successful kingdom – so successful it was ripe for invasion by the Norman lord William – forever known to history as ‘The Conqueror’. After his victory at Hastings in 1066 his determination to subjugate and tax his realm resulted in the ‘Domesday Book’ that details the owners of all the land and property in the country. This document gives the world its most detailed account of life in and around the South Hams and Dartmouth to date – and takes us out of Pre History and into History, which is where this account must end.•
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