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	Dumnonii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dumnonii is the Latin name for a Celtic tribe which occupied the SW of England prior to the advent of the Romans.
		It is also possible that the Dumnonii held some Breton land at some point since part was known as Domnonee.
		Originally their capital would have been at Exeter (known to the Romans as "Isca Dumnonii" but to the Britons as "Caeresk"), and there is evidence that the Celts continued to live in Exeter until (at least) the tenth century as equals with the newer Saxon arrivals.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Dumnonii (199 words)

	ISCA DVMNONIORVM
		Isca Dumnoniorum - The Riverside Settlement of the Dumnonii
		The Dumnonii tribe occupied the area now contained within the modern counties of Devon and Cornwall in the extreme south-western part of England.
		For a long time the passage in Ptolemy (vide supra) which placed Legio II Augusta within the lands of the Dumnonii was thought to be in error, whereby the ancient author had mistakenly copied the data for Isca Silurum in South Wales, where a legionary base of the Second was positively known to be situated.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/isca_dumnoniorum.htm (887 words)

	DUMNONII
		Evidently, the Dumnonii were set in their ways, and were not to accept Roman influence readily.
		The primary economic product of the Dumnonii was tin, and the area had been mined since ancient times, and was exported from the ancient trading port of I
		There are no direct references to the Dumnonii in any of the classical sources apart from Ptolemy, who assigns four poleis to the tribe, only one of which has been satisfactorily identified (vide supra).
	www.roman-britain.org /tribes/dumnonii.htm (497 words)

	Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland - The Coming of Gaeldom
		These invaders were the Dumnonii, who gave their name to Devon, while their most powerful Irish branch was known as the Laigin, and gave their name to Leinster.
		The Dumnonii (or Domnonii) settled as a distinct tribal population in the south of England and in several areas of Ireland, exercising overlord status over larger regions.
		A branch from Ireland settled in the area south of Dumbarton in southern Scotland before the arrival of the Romans in the mid-first century A.D., and became the ancestors of the Strathclyde Britons.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/cairney/18.htm (448 words)

	Devon - Simple English Wikipedia
		For example, many ruins of old buildings have been found on an area called "Dartmoor", which is now a National Park.
		Devon gets its name from the Dumnonii, a name which the invading Romans gave to the Celtic tribe in that area.
		The name Dumnonii means "a person who lives in a deep valley", and it comes from the hills and valleys of the area.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devon (840 words)

	Ancient Dumnonia
		The Dumnonii (or Damnonii) occupied Devon, Cornwall, and the western parts of Somerset and Dorset.
		It seems that the Romans must have come to some arrangement with the Dumnonii, for a small garrison was established at Exeter the size of which is not in keeping with a occupying force, and a relatively small number of other garrisons or forts were established.
		The Dumnonii capital was believed to be at Exeter, which the Britons called Keresk ('Caer Uisc'), and which the Romans named Isca Dumnonioram.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesBritain/BritishAncientDumnonia.htm (1326 words)

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		The Dumnonii is the name of the people who lived in Devon and Cornwall at this time.
		The Dumnonii were probably a group of smaller tribes that lived across the large area of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
		The Dumnonii appear to have accepted the Roman conquest without resistance and as a result few garrison forts were placed in their territory.
	www.gallica.co.uk /celts/tribes.htm (4524 words)

	self catering devon Higher Sellick Farm Cottages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the Roman occupation of Britain, this area was the dominion of the Celtic tribe of the Dumnonii, the "Deep Valley Dwellers".
		The major Roman influence was from the army, whose base at Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) grew into a major Roman city with all the grand buildings and public amenities associated with such.
		It is possible that, towards the end of the period of Roman rule in Britain, a leading family from amongst the Dumnonii, under one Caradoc, was already taking a part in the administration of the local 'civitas'.
	www.devonholidays.org /self-catering-devon.html (559 words)

	VIII. The Laigin
		The Laigin, or Dumnonii, were the third ethno-tribal group to come to Ireland, coming from Gaul shortly before the Gaels themselves, sometime during the first century B.C. Branches of the Dumnonii settled first in the Devon-Cornwall area before others moved on to Ireland (Chapter III).
		The Stewarts are covered under the chapter on the Normans, having come to Scotland in the wake of Norman conquest of England, in which they served as allies of the dukes of Normandy.
		In Ireland the Dumnonii were generally known as the Laigin, and originally became overlords in the southeastern and central regions, and in Connacht.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/cairney/78.htm (285 words)

	Cornovii - Corieltauvi - Dobunni - Durotriges - Dumnonii - Chysauster - Carn Euny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although the Cornovii share their name with a Caledonian tribe (it is likely to mean 'people of the horn'), there is no reason to suspect a connection between the two.
		Occupying the south-west peninsula, the Dumnonii (any connection with the Damnonii (2), who lived in southern Scotland, is unlikely) were probably a grouping of small tribes.
		There is also a fogou at Chysauster (but in a poor state and blocked off), however, no traces of an earlier settlement (which is thought must exist) have, as yet, been found.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /tribes05.htm (646 words)

	Roman Hele Bay, Ilfracombe, north Devon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vespasian then led a campaign to the south-west in which he is said to have fought 30 battles and captured over 20 hillforts on the way to Exeter, which he besieged for eight days before it fell in 49 AD.
		This suggests that the Dumnonii were not hostile to Rome; it has even been surmised that the Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia had an alliance with Rome" (Hoskins 1954 p 36 from Radford 1947 The Dumnonii TDA 79 p 21)
		Certainly the local Dumnonii continued to exploit deposits of iron as they had done before the roman invasion, and they may possibly have mined copper in a small way.
	hele.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /roman.htm (3858 words)

	Branscombe Parish - The Roman, Saxon and Viking eras
		The Dumnonii had a settlement on the present site of Exeter, called Caer Isc, or Isca, after the river which flowed around its southern boundary.
		In common with many communities along the south English and Cornish coast, the Dumnonii had traded with the Roman Empire as early as 160 BC.
		There was an established trade route to and from the Mediterranean via Brittany, which remained open throughout the Roman military expansion into Gaul (France), and eventually Britain.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1491/saxon.html (1086 words)

	BBC - History - Tribes of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The name of this tribe could be spelt either as Damnonii or as Dumnonii although the Dumnonii is also the name of the people who lived in Devon and Cornwall at this time.
		The Dumnonii were the British tribe that occupied the whole of the South West peninsula and parts of Southern Somerset.
		The Dumnonii appear to have accepted the Roman conquest without resistance and as a result few garrison forts were placed in their territory, although this area never fully adopted Roman ways of life.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/prehistory/iron_02.shtml (4586 words)

	Incubus Designs - Serim Ral Home Page
		The much feared mountain folk of the south-western peninsula have for years ruled over their rich mineral lands.
		A notoriously brave put politically backward tribe, the Dumnonii would always seek utter destruction rather than submission every time.
		They share many features of their lives with their neighbours across the Bristol Channel, the Dumnonii, with whom they are great friends.
	www.incubusdesigns.com /scrape.asp?kelt-creaturesfr.htm (906 words)

	CanadianGrassroots.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Our first tribe is the Dumnonii, located on the southwestern tip of Britain.
		They are the second set of middlemen in Britain as their territory isolates both the Dumnonii and the Durotriges from the rest of Britain.
		Yet, those Dumnonii tribesman on the southwestern tip of Britain decided they'd trade their tin and start importing manufactured goods from the Phoenicians.
	www.canadiangrassroots.ca /print.php?sid=12700 (2994 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Eyes in the Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They are Marian Dunne, an upper-middle-class matron who lives in a small Georgian manor house near Dartmoor; and Lunica, a young woman of the Dumnonii, a Celtic people who lived on the moor 2000 years ago.
		Lunica hungers for power in her male-dominated society, and she invokes the gods to give it to her.
		Though the climax is somewhat of a letdown, this perfectly controlled, adroitly phrased tale is a terrific debut.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312033362 (259 words)

	Witheridge in Roman Britain
		It is possible that this remoteness and relative unimportance of the area was a contributing factor in the decision, late in the first century AD, to move the legion out of Exeter and eventually onto their new base at Caerleon, known to the Romans as Isca, in South Wales.
		It may also have been a decision helped by the degree of co-operation they apparently received from the Dumnonii.
		What little evidence available would certainly appear to suggest that once they accepted that defeat was inevitable, they did little to incur the wrath of the Romans.
	www.witheridge-historical-archive.com /roman.htm (772 words)

	INTRODUCTION
		Somerset was never a separate tribal area but was divided among three tribes whose principal territories were in neighbouring counties.
		The Dumnonii, for the most part, appear to have been a pastoral people using cattle or unworked metal—tin and copper for exchange by barter, but both the Dobunni and the Durotriges minted their own coins.
		There were no clear-cut boundaries, but the division of Somerset into these three spheres of tribal influence continued into the period of the Roman occupation.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /archives/ASH/Hill-forts.htm (393 words)

	Gwarddur, King of the Dumnonii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gwarddur is King of the Dumnonii, and King of Tintagel, and as such one of the most powerful Tribal Lords in Britain.
		Gwarddur was vocal in his opposition of the appointment of Constans as Emperor, calling him a 'clerk' and 'unfit to rule a priory', and then walked out of the Supreme Collegium when he was elected.
		It may best be said that he is war leader in times of external threat, and otherwise a mere figurehead.
	www.pbem-portal.com /fantasy/pretannic/people/gwarddur.htm (124 words)

	Dumnonia @ BaseballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Dumnonii is the Latin name for a Celtic tribe that inhabited the Westcountry of England.This name is also represented in Britain's two Brythonic languages: Cornish and Welsh, as Dewnans and Dyfnaint respectively.
		Certainly Brythonic Celtic peoples are reported by William of Malmesbury to have been living in the area of Devon in Britain alongside Saxon peoples during the 10th century.
		This even will take place, as part of the Malta Historic Cities Festival organised by the Malta Tourism Authority on Sunday 16th October at 11.00 hrs in Cathedral Square.
	www.baseballliving.com /about/Dumnonia (674 words)

	Ancient Celtic Roots, part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the first century BC, there were two kinds of societies in the south of Britain; both of these did some farming but how they earned a living and their dealings with others differed.
		In the west and southwest (Devon and Cornwall) lived the Dumnonii tribe and in the region of the Severn estuary, the Dubunni.
		The Cantiaci, who dwelt in what is now Kent, England, the Trinovantes (Essex), and Iceni of East Anglia were warlike mercenaries.
	members.aol.com /jilliemae/gaels2.htm (970 words)

	Aerial Archaeology
		Coney’s Castle lies south-east of Lamberth’s Castle on the western edge of Dorset and has never been excavated..
		Both hillforts lie on the boundary between the ancient tribes of the Durotriges, in Dorset, and the Dumnonii in Somerset.
		It is not sure where Coney’s Castle was used as border post or a defended enclosure for keeping cattle and sheep safe from wild animals and/or unfriendly raiding parties.
	www.wdi.co.uk /air/coney.html (123 words)

	Dewnans - Ancient Dumnonia
		These native Britains may have been ethnically related to the Iceni, celtic tribe of the east of England led to heroic defeat by Boudicea (Boudicca), but they did not suffer the same fate.
		Remains of Roman settlement in Devon and Cornwall are remarkably few, but the fact that some Roman buildings exist, even down to Cornwall (eg at Nanstallon) points to some sort of truce between the Romans and Dumnonii, and the Dumnonii probably continued to have a degree of self-government throughout the Roman occupation.
		However Celtic tribes in eastern Britain felt vulnerable following the Roman withdrawal, and looked across the North Sea for support.
	users.senet.com.au /~dewnans/ancient_dumnonia.html (1384 words)

	British Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rivals with the Brigantes for control of the lowland plains part of Brittania
		Dumnonii: South-western British tribe, based on the oppidum of Caerwisc.
		Regular traders of iron with the Silures and who have very close links with the Veneti of Long Haired Gaul.
	www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au /home/spotter/British_Tribes.html (225 words)

	History of Shirwell North Devon
		Very little is known about these people, who left no written records, though they may have planted the great yew trees in the churchyard, which are much older than the church.
		The Romans would have called them 'Dumnonii', but they would probably have thought of themselves as very different from the Dumnones, who lived around Isca Dumnoniorum, or Exeter.
		Their houses and tools have rotted and rusted, and newer buildings have hidden their remains.
	www.shirwell.org.uk /history1.html (924 words)

	larp
		The closest tribes were the Dumnonii, and the Belgae [already Larpers}.
		Possibly a connection with the war-like Tribe of the Belgae, Dumnonii and Argantes.
		To begin with you can choose your own character, deepen it out and dress accordingly.
	www.marielle.fam-smit.ws /LARP.htm (2606 words)

	Exeter as a Roman Town: The Form & Growth of the City
		Exeter as a Roman Town: The Form & Growth of the City
		Following the departure of the legion, Exeter was chosen as the regional capital (‘civitas capital’) of the people of Devon and Cornwall - the Dumnonii.
		A new stone forum was laid out at the centre of the old fortress site, and local people who accepted Roman authority and customs soon set up shops and houses on the plots surrounding it.
	www.exeter.gov.uk /timetrail/03_romantown/growth.asp (520 words)

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