Roman incursions into Gaul and Britain were likely key to the druids’ decline. Records from the 1st century ce indicate that Roman authorities banned druids, and Tacitus describes a Roman massacre of Britons, including druids, in 59 or 60 ce. Christianity later supplanted earlier religious traditions in regions where druids survived longer. By the time the druids were mentioned in medieval writings from Ireland and Wales, they were no longer extant and had come to serve as a symbol of non-Christian practices in general.
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