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 the only other walled town apart from the capital and was possibly the centre of a separate tribal capital of the northern Durotriges.
Hengistbury Head – Ancient trading centre of the Durotriges on the south coast of Dorset.
Durnovaria Vindocladia – (Badbury, Dorset) – Small settlement to take the inhabitants of the nearby hillfort of Badbury Rings.
Woodyates – Small settlement or posting station..
Hamworthy – (Poole, Dorset) – Small port serving the campaign fortress of the Second Legion and the later settlement at Badbury.
Radipole – (Weymouth, Dorset) – A small port.
Wareham – (Dorset) – A settlement of unknown extent, perhaps the centre of the extensive stone and shale quarries near Kimmeridge and Purbeck.
Some of the Durotriges kings and queens
The Durotriges did not keep any records of their rulers, and the coins they issued were unique in that they did not have images of their monarchs on them
