The political and socio-economic organisation during the century between Caesar and Claudius, of the area which was to become the civitas of the Cantiaci is imperfectly known; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that the area formed part of a larger region centred on the Thames and stretching as far north as the East Anglia rivers, west to the Chiltern ridge and south to the High Weald of Kent and Sussex.

Tribal territory and the pre-Roman iron age.