![]() Given our inexact knowledge of the distribution of the tribes in Iron Age and subsequently Roman Britain, it is actually quite difficult to give a definite answer to the question of which tribes inhabited the area which later became Warwickshire. You can read more about client kingdoms here. In the same way, the tribal name "Regnenses" is actually Latin and means "inhabitants of the (client) kingdom". It is unlikely that the Durotriges named themselves after their hillforts. The name "Durotriges" for example may mean "hillfort-dwellers", referring to the fact that hillforts continued to be occupied in this area after they were abandoned elsewhere in the south of Britain. We should also note that the names that Ptolemy and others gave the British Tribes were not necessarily the names by which the tribes knew themselves. Information from the distribution of Celtic coins also allows us to map this distribution, but the exact ranges of the tribal territories will always remain speculative. His geographical works are one of the main sources for the names and distribution of the British tribes. AD100 – ca.170 AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, and geographer from Alexandria in Egypt. The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. We will look at these larger tribal groups - those which had developed by the time of the arrival of the Romans in AD43 - below, focusing especially on the tribes who may have lived in the area occupied by present day Warwickshire.ĭistribution of Iron Age Tribes in Roman Times ![]() Perhaps people had begun to meet together as larger tribal groups in just a few of the most important hillforts. Why so many went out of use is not known. By about 350 BC many hillforts went out of use and the remaining ones were reinforced. There are over 2,000 Iron Age hillforts known in Britain. ![]() This inter-tribal warfare was traditionally interpreted as the reason for the building of hill forts, as defensive areas where small communities across the landscape could muster and stand their ground when attacked.Īlthough the first hillforts had been built about 1500 BC, building peaked during the later Iron Age. These groups would have changed and evolved throughout the Iron Age, and their early interactions seem to have been hostile, perhaps as tribal groups and boundaries settled in to place. Iron Age Britons lived in organised tribal groups, ruled by a chieftain.
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