Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Aye, that’s just as likely. Maev Kennedy witing on Silchester Iron Age finds reveal secrets of pre-Roman Britain in the Guardian last month struck a cord though -

“They [the Atrebates] also had town planning, another presumed later introduction. The Romans were undoubtedly better road engineers; in the torrential rain earlier this summer, their broad north-south road, built with a camber and drainage ditches, stayed dry, while the Iron Age road turned into a swampy river. But the evidence is unarguable: the Iron Age people lived in regular house plots flanking broad gravelled roads, aligned with the sunrises and sunsets of the summer and winter solstices, in a major town a century earlier than anyone had believed.”