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The Romans in Britain
The Durotriges

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Background to the Durotriges

Location of the DurotrigesLocation 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

So no records remain of their rulers.

 

IceniTrinovantesCatuvellanuniCantiumAtrebatesDumnonniDurotrigesDobunniSiluresDenetaeOrdovicesCornoviiCorieltauviDruidsDeceangliBrigantesParisiVotadiniSelgovaeNovantae?Venicones?TaexaliVacomagiCaledonni

To see the details of a tribe from an area, pass your mouse pointer over the map and select a specific region.

This section is not quite complete, as there are some tribes for which there is little information. These will be updated when the necessary facts have been established.

 

 


  

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