The Parisi Background to the Parisi Location of the tribe North and East Yorkshire Background information The Parisi were originally immigrants from Gaul, which is why their share their name with the tribe that occupied modern day France. As can be gathered from their name, they gave the French capital it’s name. Principal towns and …
Category: Tribes
Sep 23
Ordovices
The Ordovices Background to the Ordovices Location of the tribe Central Wales from the coast to the Englsih border. This area is now known as Gwynedd and south Clwyd Background information The Ordovices had no self-government and wre not awarded their own Civitas capital by the Romans. During the reign of Agricola, the Ordovices were …
Sep 23
Durotriges
The Durotriges Background to the Durotriges Location of the tribe The Durotriges occupied what is now Devon and parts of Dorset and Somerset. Principal towns and settlements in Durotriges territory Durnovaria or Dorotrioum – (Dorchester, Dorset) – The civitas capital of the Durotriges. A large walled town. Other Settlements Lindinis – (Ilchester, Somerset) – Was …
Sep 23
Dobunni
The Dobunni Background to the Dobunni Location of the tribe The west of England, taking in Avon and part of Gloucestershire. Principal towns and settlements in Dobunni territory Corinium Dobunnorum – (Cirencester, Gloucester) – Established by the Romans at the centre of a network of local roads. At it’s height the town covered more than …
Sep 23
Deceangli
The Deceangli Background to the Deceangli Location of the tribe Far Northern Wales Background information Possibly also known as Decangi, Deceangi, Cangi and Ceangi, the Deceangli had no real governement but they did have a tribal capital, Canovium, which late became the civitas capital They were probably under military government like their welsh based neighbours, …
Sep 23
Kings of the Catuvellauni
Kings of the Catuvellauni Cassivelaunus Fl 55-4 BC Andocomius Son of C Tasciovanus (Tehvant) D cAD 13 Cunobelinus D cAD 40 Son of T 1 Silurian princess 2 Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes Togodumnus Caratacus Adminius 2 others (Tacitus) Guiderius (Guidgen) Belinus Lou Hen Aballacos Canis Scapulatis Eugen Eudelin bro of E Decianus Brictogenius Dobunni …
Sep 23
Catuvellauni
The Catuvellauni Background to the Catuvellauni Location of the tribe The Catuvellauni occupied the central part of England, encompassing London, Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, parts of Essex, Northamptonshire. Background information The Catuvellauni were something of an enigma in that they were not recorded by Julius Caesar anywhere in his writings on Britain. Yet …
Sep 23
Cantii
The Cantium Background to the Cantium Location of the tribe Far South East of England, Kent and a smail part of Sussex Background information Julius Caesar noted in his writings that this part of Britain was occupied by what he considered to be the most civilised tribe in Britain. Mostly this attributed to the fact …
Sep 23
Holy Places of the Brigantes
Yorkshire’s Holy Wells & the Severed Head – Holy places of the Brigantes? by Edna Whelan The cult of the severed head is important in Celtic tradition; and most of Yorkshire was once occupied by the Celtic tribe of the Brigantes, a confederacy of Celtic tribes subservient to an overruling royal dynasty. The reign of …
Sep 23
Brigantes
The Brigantes The name Brigantia represents three separate concepts: a goddess, a people, and a tribal federation. By the Roman period, the name represented a tribal federation compromising all of what would become the Roman province of Britannia Secunda, except for the Parisi territory, east of the River Derwent. Before the arrival of the Romans, …
PAS North Yorkshire
- NLM-235F92 COIN ROMAN 4 February 2025Copper alloy coin fragment. Probably a radiate indeterminate, later Roman issue of 260-296; about half the flan is lost to a recent break.Obverse description: [bust]Reverse description: figure standing left with right hand outstretched.Reverse inscription: probably VIR(TVS AVG)Diameter: 17.1mm, Weight: 0.86gms
- NLM-233742 RIVET POST MEDIEVAL 4 February 2025Copper alloy rivet. Cylindrical shank of diameter 5.1mm with a round flat head and with its other end passing through a larger circular rove, being burred on the other side of it. The rivet passed through leather of thickness 11mm to judge from the space between its head and the rove. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900Length: […]
- NLM-22EAF7 COIN ROMAN 4 February 2025Copper alloy coin. Nummus of the House of Constantine (306-361), probably Constantine II (317-340), Gloria Exercitus issue of 330-335, Reece period 17Obverse description: bust laureate cuirassed right, seen from front.Obverse inscription: possibly CONSTANTINVS IVN [NOB C]Reverse description: two soldiers with two standards between them.Reverse inscription: [GLORIA EXERCITVS]Diameter: 14.8mm, Weight: 1.71gms, die axis: 6
- NLM-2287D1 COIN EARLY MEDIEVAL 4 February 2025Silver coin. Northumbrian non-pictoral sceat of Ethelred I, first reign, 774-778, by moneyer Ceolbald [Abramson 2006 page 130].Obverse description: central cross potent; initial cross potentObverse inscription: +AEDILREDReverse description: central ring of pellets round larger plain boss; initial cross potent.Reverse inscription: +CEOBALDDiameter: 13.7mm, Weight: 0.84gms, die axis: 3
- NLM-226339 RIVET POST MEDIEVAL 4 February 2025Copper alloy rivet. A cylindrical flat-headed rivet of diameter 5.3mm whose end passes through a wider circular rove, being hammered and burred to fix it in place. This object was presumably attached to leather of thickness 9mm, an inference from the space between rivet head and rove. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900Length: 14.8mm, Diameter (rove): 14.5mm, […]
PAS West Yorkshire
- YORYM-8E1BC7 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250 -1500. Meols Type 2.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed and recessed strap bar. A grooved pin rest is present on the upper surface of the outside edge of the loop. A circular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular […]
- YORYM-8E4F89 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250-1500. Meols Type 1.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed strap bar. The upper surface of the frame has been decorated with four groups of four parallel incised grooves. A rectangular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular plate is looped […]
PAS South Yorkshire
- YORYM-8FC319 HARNESS PENDANT MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025An incomplete copper-alloy gilded zoomorphic harness pendant of medieval date, AD 1200 - 1400.The pendant comprises a D-shaped plate in the form of a forward-facing animal's head, probably a stag, with integral attachment loop. The upper surface is moulded with features including pellet eyes, an elongated raised muzzle, and rounded snout. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The attachment […]
- NMGW-C31C53 CHARIOT FITTING IRON AGE 24 January 2025Addendum to an Iron Age sacred lake assemblage: a Late Iron Age bridle-bit and terret (50 BC - AD 75)1. Two-link bridle-bit, Polden Hill Subtype, bronze, complete Dimensions: maximum length 238.0mm; external rein-ring diameters (1)73.8-74.0mm & (2) 73.5-74.7mm; internal rein-ring diameters (1) 55.6mm & (2) 56.3mm; thickness rein rings – side to side (1) 8.3-9.0mm & […]
