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The main Iron Age tribes in Southern Britain

The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the distribution of Celtic coins has also shed light on the extents of the territories of the various groups that occupied the island.

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Iron Age tribes in Britain

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The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the...

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British Iron Age

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Romanised culture is termed Roman Britain and is considered to supplant the British Iron Age. The tribes living in Britain during this time are often popularly...

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Corieltauvi

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Corieltavi) were a Celtic tribe living in Britain prior to the Roman conquest, and thereafter a civitas of Roman Britain. Their territory was in what is now the...

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Cantiaci

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disposed of his realm in favour of Hengist, whose daughter Vortigern wished to marry". Iron Age tribes in Britain List of Celtic tribes Caesar, Gaius Julius...

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Iron Age Scandinavia

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Iron Age Scandinavia (or Nordic Iron Age) was the Iron Age, as it unfolded in Scandinavia. It was preceded by the Nordic Bronze Age. The 6th and 5th centuries...

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Durotriges

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The Durotriges were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman invasion. The tribe lived in modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset...

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Iron Age Europe

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In Europe, the Iron Age is the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods, which initially meant descriptions of...

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Ordovices

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*Ordowīces) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion. Their tribal lands were located in present-day North Wales and England...

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Archaeology of Northern Europe

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Roman Iron Age (1–400 AD) is a part of the Iron Age. The name comes from the hold that the Roman Empire had begun to exert on the Germanic tribes of Northern...

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Carvetii

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Brittonic: *Carwetī) were a Brittonic Celtic tribe living in what is now Cumbria, in North-West England during the Iron Age, and were subsequently identified as...

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Silures

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/ˈsɪljəriːz/ SIL-yər-eez) were a powerful and warlike tribe or tribal confederation of ancient Britain, occupying what is now south east Wales and perhaps...

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Dumnonii

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peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period. They were bordered to the east by the Durotriges tribe. William Camden, in his 1607...

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Celtic Britons

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Britons is from Greco-Roman writers and dates to the Iron Age. Ancient Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts....

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Dobunni

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one of the Iron Age tribes living in the British Isles prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. There are seven known references to the tribe in Roman histories...

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Caledonians

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administering most of Great Britain as the Roman province of Britannia. The Caledonians, like many Celtic tribes in Britain, were hillfort builders and...

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Demetae

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a Celtic people of Iron Age and Roman period, who inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. The tribe also gave their name...

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List of governors of Roman Britain

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became a usurper in the West Roman client kingdoms in Britain Iron Age tribes in Britain Dux Britanniarum Comes Britanniarum Count of the Saxon Shore RIB...

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Regni

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Celtic tribe or group of tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman Conquest, and later a civitas or canton of Roman Britain. They lived in what is...

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Atrebates

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tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region. After the tribes of Gallia Belgica were defeated by Caesar in 57...

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History of the British Isles

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western Europe". As its name suggests, the British Iron Age is also characterised by the adoption of iron, a metal which was used to produce a variety...

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Roman client kingdoms in Britain

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The Roman client kingdoms in Britain were native tribes which chose to align themselves with the Roman Empire because they saw it as the best option for...

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Belgae

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C. Haselgrove, "The age of enclosure: Later Iron Age settlement and society in northern France," in The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond (Oxford,...

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Cenimagni

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Caesar left Britain he took hostages from the Britons, although which tribes were compelled to give any is not specified. Iron Age tribes in Britain Iceni Cantiaci...

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Prehistoric Ireland

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found in Britain. The Iron Age includes the period in which the Romans ruled most of the neighbouring island of Great Britain. Roman interest in the area...

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Setantii

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British people who apparently lived in the western and southern littoral of Lancashire in England. It is thought likely they were a sept or sub-tribe...

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Catuvellauni

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Brittonic: *Catu-wellaunī, "war-chiefs") were a Celtic tribe or state of southeastern Britain before the Roman conquest, attested by inscriptions into...

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Prehistoric Wales

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to Britain and Ireland. These western European Iron Age tribes in Britain were established in the late Iron Age between c. 500 BC - 200 BC. Later in the...

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