The county of Shropshire has one of the most interesting and varied landscapes of any in Britain and this is due to the contrasts between the old rocks of the palaeozoic sequence, which stand up in rugged grandeur, their hardness having made them resistant to time's eroding agencies, and the softer rocks of more recent geological times, mainly the red sandstone of the Triassic series.

Chapter One. Tribal territory and the pre-Roman iron age.