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Dumnonii
Dumnonii

Territory: in the South-West Country of Britain (Somerset, Devon and Cornwall) Tribal (Roman) Capital: Isca Dumnoniorum (modern Exeter, Devon)

Little is known about the Dumnonii. A Brythonic kingdom, called Dumnonia, occupied the south-west peninsula in sub-Roman times. It probably wasn’t so much a ‘kingdom’ as a collection of sub-kingdoms or even a grouping of small tribes. They didn’t use any coins or have any large settlements.

The Dumnonii do not seem to have been politically centralised: the structure, distribution and construction of Bronze Age and Iron Age hillforts in the southwest shows a number of smaller tribal groups living alongside each other.

They seem to have offered no resistance to the invading Romans and as a result, few garrison forts were placed there. Isca Dumnoniorum was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain and the Romans established Isca as the capital of their civitas. Isca Dumnoniorum was also the southern starting point for the Roman Fosse Way.

The Latin name suggests that the city was already a Celtic oppidum (walled town) on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city around 50AD.

The Dumnonii didn’t adopt the Roman way of life fully and carried on in their own lifestyle throughout the occupation. Evidence of this is their style of building during the Roman period. It was wholly native in form with no Romanised features.
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FF_Fairy03.gif * Adalai Dumnonii
24 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: June 29 , 2007
bonniegeorge.JPG * Addison Dumnonii
6 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: October 5 , 2005
avatar000.gif * Aine Maire Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: March 9 , 2004
avatar000.gif * Aisling Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: April 27 , 2010
avatar-000.gif * Alba Dumnonii
7 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: June 13 , 2008
avatar000.gif * Aleria Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: June 13 , 2005
Alyson.jpg * Alyson Dumnonii
47 Board Posts - 2 Groups
last login: March 13 , 2009
amlawdd.gif * Amlawdd Dumnonii
56 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: July 3 , 2006
avatar000.gif * anitadanjuma Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: March 27 , 2009
avatar000.gif * Aoife Alfr Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: October 21 , 2008
AonghusD.gif * Aonghus Dumnonii
10 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: March 16 , 2008
avatar116.gif * Araedia Dumnonii
6 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: December 10 , 2006
avatar.jpg * Arianrhod Dumnonii
28 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: August 21 , 2005
ArianwenPortraitSmall.gif * Arianwen Dumnonii
658 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: December 14 , 2011
Artoros.gif * Artoros Dumnonii
42 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: April 6 , 2008
talon.jpg * Arvandus Dumnonii
21 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: January 1 , 2005
avatar000.gif * athena Dumnonii
4 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: December 21 , 2006
avella1.png * Avella Dumnonii
274 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: May 21 , 2011
pictish_wolf.jpg * Bleiza Dumnonii
5 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: August 17 , 2005
avatar-000.gif * Blyth Dumnonii
5 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: October 23 , 2003
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