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	Ordovices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ordovices were one of the Celtic tribes living in the British Islands, before the Roman invasion of Britain.
		The Ordovices were conquered by the Roman governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola in the campaign of AD 77/78.
		Caratacus became the warlord of the Ordovices and neighbouring Silures, and a Roman public enemy in the decade of 50.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordovices (328 words)

	Ordovices -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ordovices were one of the (A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times) Celtic tribes living in the British Islands, before the (Click link for more info and facts about Roman invasion of Britain) Roman invasion of Britain.
		The Ordovices were conquered by the (Click link for more info and facts about Roman governor) Roman governor (Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)) Gnaeus Julius Agricola in the campaign of (Click link for more info and facts about 77) 77/78 AD.
		Caratacus became the warlord of the Ordovices and neighbouring Silures, and a Roman public enemy in the decade of (The cardinal number that is the product of ten and five) 50.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/ordovices.htm (400 words)

	Romans in Britain - The Ordovices tribe
		Most of the tribe lived either in the hillforts of which there is archaeological evidence that there were many in existence., or in the immediate surrounding area.
		Shortly after his arrival in Britain, Agricola took the XX Legion into north Wales, massacred the Ordovices and conquered the stronghold of the Druids on Mona in a single psuh late in the campaign season of 78AD.
		The outcome of this Agricola's campaign was a near total wipeout of the Ordovices, and they did not recover until the third century AD.
	www.romans-in-britain.org.uk /clb_tribe_ordovices.htm (253 words)

	histancient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is generally accepted that a gradual Iron Age Celtic incursion over the period 800-400 BC led to most of the country being held by a branch known as the Goedels, with a swathe of Mid Wales being occupied by the Brythons.
		The Ordovices are generally assumed to be Brythonic in origin, unlike those tribes of Goidelic extraction to the North and South.
		At first the Ordovices, under the leadership of Caradawg (Caracticus), inflicted heavy losses on the Romans but, eventually, in the late 70s AD they were defeated by Agricola.
	website.lineone.net /~dyfival1/histancient.htm (391 words)

	BBC - Wales History - Building a nation
		In the first century it had at least five tribal groupings: the Deceangli in the North East; the Ordovices in the North West; the Demetians in the South West; the Silurians in the South East; and the Cornovii in the central borderlands.
		By 75 the Silurians had been conquered and, by the AD 60s, with the defeat of the Ordovices, the whole of what would be England and Wales had come under Roman control.
		In the Forum in Rome today, there is a vast mosaic map of the Roman Empire; the territory of the Ordovices is not shown as part of it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/history/sites/nation/pages/romans01.shtml (675 words)

	PRE WELSH HISTORY
		Wales was divided into five kingdoms known as the Deceangli (north-west), Ordovices (the mountainous central area), Demetae (south-west), Silures (south) and Cornovii (the Marches and east Wales except Monmouth).
		It may be noticed that the Ordovices were free of a "capital" but they did have a small civil site at Caersws.
		Shrewsbury was known as Amwithig by the Romans but was Pengwern to the Welsh builders, reputed to mean 'the hill of alders'.
	www.my.familytree.dsl.pipex.com /pre-welsh_history.htm (2294 words)

	Britannia: Caratacus, the First British Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His numerically inferior forces survived an indecisive engagement with the Romans in the land of the Silures (modern-day Glamorgan in Wales) and so Caratacus moved north, to the land of the Ordovices (central Gwynedd, southern Clwyd, northern Powys) to find the ideal location for a battle which he intended to be decisive.
		Inferior in military strength, but deriving an advantage from the deceptiveness of the country, he at once shifted the war by a stratagem into the territory of the Ordovices, where, joined by all who dreaded peace with us, he resolved on a final struggle.
		He selected a position for the engagement in which advance and retreat alike would be difficult for our men and comparatively easy for his own, and then on some lofty hills, wherever their sides could be approached by a gentle slope, he piled up stones to serve as a rampart.
	www.britannia.com /history/bb51.html (1473 words)

	roman_herefordshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was during these campaigns that Ostorius Scapula penetrated through Herefordshire and into the territory of the rebellious Welsh tribe, the Ordovices, whose southern boundary is thought to have lain between the Wye and the Teme.
		The successful Roman Invasion under the Emperor Claudius took place in 43AD, but it wasn't until c.75AD that the Silures and their neighbouring tribe, the Ordovices, were finally overcome by the Governor Frontinus.
		In particular the Ordovices, led by Caratacus, were on the offensive against the Roman invasion.
	www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk /roman/rom_hrfds.htm (1662 words)

	The Roman invasion of Wales
		They moved into the north of Wales against the Deceangli, and established forts along the frontier with the Silures, notably at present-day Gloucester and Usk.
		The ever-pugnacious Caratacus - the Caradog of Welsh legend - moved north to carry on the fight in the territory of the Ordovices in Anglesey and Caernarfon.
		If the Silures finally bent a grudging knee to the might of Rome, such could not be said for the Ordovices.
	www.britainexpress.com /wales/history/roman-invasion.htm (1508 words)

	ANCIENT LLYN HYNAFOL
		Mae hefyd dystiolaeth fod yr Ordovices wedi parhau fel uned tan y bumed ganrif.
		The Ordovices (Hammer-fighters) that ruled the whole of North Wales at the time of the roman invasion were probably a confederation of such Celtic tribes.
		There is also evidence that the Ordovices as a unit survived as an entity until the 5th century.
	www.penllyn.com /1/Hanes/HYNAFOL.HTML (1168 words)

	Cunobelinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tranferring the war to the country of the Ordovices, he was joined by everyone who feared a Roman peace....While light-armed auxiliaries attacked with javelins, the heavy regular infantry advanced in close formation.
		It is not known where this battle was fought, but Snowdonia was at the very heart of the territory of the Ordovices.
		If Caratacus was defeated there and not in the land of the Catuvellauni, it may be, in part, because of what had happened a hundred years before.
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/britannia/wales/snowdonia.html (299 words)

	Early Roman Wales
		Such is not the case with the Silures in the south-east and the Ordovices in the north-west, whose territories are dotted with Roman strongholds.
		Investigation of remains at these forts suggests that the Silures gradually adapted to the presence of the Romans among them and gave little trouble after the mid 2nd century.
		The north-west of Wales remained a source of irritation to the Romans for generations to come, if we can judge by the continued military presence and lack of villas in this area.
	www.britainexpress.com /wales/history/roman2.htm (705 words)

	Roman_Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roman troops landed at Richborough and defeated the south eastern British tribes under Caratacus, and captured his capital Camulodunum or Colchester.
		Caratacus refused to submit, and retreated deeper into unconquered Britain, coming to the domain of the Ordovices in 47.
		The governor Agricola, father-in-law to the historian Tacitus, conquered the Ordovices in 78.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Roman_Britain (4007 words)

	BBC - History - Tribes of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Deceangli, the Ordovices and the Silures were the three main tribe groups who lived in the mountains of what is today called Wales.
		They were friendly towards the Romans and quickly adapted to Roman rule, unlike their more warlike and scattered neighbours in the mountains of Wales; the Silures and the Ordovices.
		Because of this the Demetae did not need to be intensively garrisoned by the Roman army, except along their eastern border, which may have been to protect them from their hostile neighbours, the Silures.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/prehistory/iron_02.shtml (4586 words)

	History of Roman Britain
		While the conquest was going on in the west at Colchester the colonia Victricensis was founded in AD 51and became the centre for the Imperial cult.
		His successor Frontinus could not fight the Brigantes since he had to face the Silures and Ordovices in Wales again.
		The legionary fortresses at Caerleon and Chester were built now and the most famous governor of Britain Agricola (because fo the biography of his son-in-law Tacitus) campaigned in Wales in his first year (AD 78) too.
	www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk /MultimediaStudentProjects/98-99/9808220d/pro/roman/history/His1.htm (971 words)

	Huddersfield One - Tolson Museum Booklets - Huddersfield In Roman Times - Huddersfield in Roman Times, Life in Roman ...
		It resistance was obstinate or behaviour treacherous a whole countryside might be laid waste mercilessly, and its people killed, enslaved or transported.
		Tacitus alludes twice to such treatment of British natives; the Ordovices of North Wales were subdued, “for almost the whole tribe was wiped out”; and the sentiment that “the Romans made a wilderness and call it peace” presumably was not put by him without reason into the mouth of a particularly obstinate British chief.
		On the other hand a great tribal centre might be ruined, while the smaller native villages and hill-forts survived.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/tolson/roman_times/native_conditions.htm (328 words)

	The Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era
		The Ordovician was named by the British geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879.
		He took the name from an ancient Celtic tribe, the Ordovices, renowned for its resistance to Roman domination.
		The age of the Ordovician boundaries were determined using potassium-argon and uranium radiometric dating.
	www.science501.com /PTOrdovician.html (1229 words)

	MONTGOMERY (BRIT. INDIA) - LoveToKnow Article on MONTGOMERY (BRIT. INDIA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The English name is from Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury (temp.
		At the coming of the Romans this county was part of the Ordovices' territory (Britannia secunda), and there are remains of Roman encampments and fortifications at Caersws, Mathrafal, and near Montgomery.
		The roads connecting these stations can often be traced.
	27.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTGOMERY_BRIT_INDIA_.htm (2653 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Agricola and the Final Invasion of Anglesey
		Agricola knew that the situation with the Ordovices needed to be settled once and for all as, in the years since Paulinus’s withdrawal from the area to crush the Boudiccan revolt, there had been opportunity for the Ordovices and their Druids - a religion Rome saw as dangerous - to gather strength anew.
		Meanwhile Agricola, though summer was past and the detachments were scattered throughout the province, though the soldier’s confident anticipation of inaction for that year would be a source of delay and difficulty in beginning a campaign, and most advisers thought it best simply to watch all weak points, resolved to face the peril.
		In this, the first of his battles with the Ordovices, Tacitus records that Agricola gathered together a force of veterans and some auxiliaries and immediately went to do battle with the enemy.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /ancient/anglesey/agricola.aspx (5237 words)

	ROMAN LLYN RHYFEINIG
		Yn ol Tacitus fe wnaeth Ordovices Gogledd Cymru wrthryfela a threchu carawd o farchogion a oedd yn tiriogaethu, yn yr ardal.
		In A.D.78 Julius Agricola took control of the armies in Britain.
		According to Tacitus the Ordovices of North Wales revolted and defeated a regiment of cavalry operating in the territory.
	www.penllyn.com /1/Hanes/ROME.HTML (1375 words)

	The Auxillia of the Roman Army in North Wales
		The first against the Silures of South Wales, and the second in North Wales against the Ordovices or the Deceangli, finally Anglesey is occupied, but the Boudican revolt, announced to Paulinus while he is still at Anglesey meant he couldn’t consolidate his gains.
		The Ordovices, however, rebelled in 78 and Julius Agricola attacks North Wales with a series of lightning attacks, re-occupying Anglesey, which had apparently seen the army the year before, and the Celtic occupants considered themselves doubly conquered.
		Tacitus records a Roman Cavalry unit being exterminated by the Ordovices in Merionedd, in the first year of Agricola’s governership.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~grayb/auxilia/romanwales.htm (3476 words)

	Marcus Vinicius Spatula - A Roman Story - III - Chapter 3
		He knew his country well and was ranging around it in an arrogant, proprietorial manner.
		Abandoning his power centre among the southern Silures, he was on the march northwards, to the Ordovices' territory.
		Heavy trouble at that: if Caratacus is heading north, the Ordovices will be more inspired than ever.
	www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk /content/rostory/spat3.htm (2297 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Caratacus has the Romans worried and in 51 he takes an army northwards to join up with the Ordovices.
		With this track record of dead Governors and the Silures, perhaps it's not too surprising that Gaius Suetonius Paulinus goes straight onto battle...
		with the Ordovices in North and Central Wales.
	www.cymru9.fsnet.co.uk /page13.html (1797 words)

	The Early Welsh Kingdoms, Gwynedd
		Little is recorded about them that can be established as firm historical fact though it is possible that the Silures, Ordovices and Demetae continued to be ruled by tribal chieftains within the Roman administration.
		Towards the end of this period an influx of Irish from the west and British from the east began to test these tribal boundaries and new ones emerged based, initially, on the old tribes, but subsequently developing into four main kingdoms - Gwent, Gwynedd, Powys and Deheubarth.
		wynedd covered the territory of the Ordovices, but the kingdom established by Cunedda brought together migratory British from elsewhere in Britain.
	www.castlewales.com /gwynedd.html (523 words)

	BBBMMM
		Brannogenium and Mediolanium are found in Ptolemy's Geography as two poleis in the territory of the Ordovices.
		Mediolano and Brauonio are placed by AI outside the territory described by Ptolemy.
		The equation of Ptolemy's Mediolanium with Ravenna's Mediomanum would resolve the conflict by allowing for two Mediolanos, one at Whitchurch and one in the west within the territory of the Ordovices.
	www.romanmap.com /htm/names/BBBMMM.htm (361 words)

	At the Edge archive: Buddug in Flintshire
		The remaining southern area of Clwyd may have lain in the northern section of the land occupied by the Ordovices.
		Two campaigns by Suetonius Paulinus in AD 58-9 are presumed to have been fought against the Silures, and Ordovices or Deceangli.
		To the south, the Ordovices rebelled in AD 78 but were suppressed by forces under Julius Agricola.' [Therefore Pennant's suggestion that Gop Hill was the place of slaughter of the Ordovices by Agricola does not fit.]
	www.indigogroup.co.uk /edge/Boudica5.htm (1129 words)

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