Editing Durotriges (section)

{{Short description|A Celtic Iron Age tribe from Great Britain}}
{{Infobox Celts of England
| Name     = Durotriges
| fullname = Durotriges
| map      = [[Image:Britain.south.peoples.Ptolemy.jpg|220px|Celtic tribes of South England]]
| name     = Durotriges
| capital  = ''[[Durnovaria]]'' <small>([[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]])</small><br />Dunium <small>([[Hengistbury Head]])</small>
| location = [[Dorset]]<br />[[South Wiltshire]]<br />[[South Somerset]]<br />[[Devon]]
| rulers   = None known
}}
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The '''Durotriges''' were one of the [[Celt]]ic tribes living in [[British Iron Age|Britain]] prior to the [[Roman invasion of Britain|Roman invasion]]. The tribe lived in modern [[Dorset]], south [[Wiltshire]], south [[Somerset]] and [[Devon]] east of the [[River Axe (Lyme Bay)|River Axe]] and the discovery of an Iron Age hoard in 2009 at [[Shalfleet]], [[Isle of Wight]] gives evidence that they may also have lived in the western half of the island. There is growing evidence<ref name=lmc>{{Cite journal |last1=Cassidy |first1=Lara M. |last2=Russell |first2=Miles |last3=Smith |first3=Martin |last4=Delbarre |first4=Gabrielle |last5=Cheetham |first5=Paul |last6=Manley |first6=Harry |last7=Mattiangeli |first7=Valeria |last8=Breslin |first8=Emily M. |last9=Jackson |first9=Iseult |last10=McCann |first10=Maeve |last11=Little |first11=Harry |last12=O’Connor |first12=Ciarán G. |last13=Heaslip |first13=Beth |last14=Lawson |first14=Daniel |last15=Endicott |first15=Phillip |date=January 2025 |title=Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=637 |issue=8048 |pages=1136–1142 |doi=10.1038/s41586-024-08409-6 |pmid=39814899 |issn=1476-4687|pmc=11779635 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 10, Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dm7nh1 |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> to suggest that women held relatively high status in the tribe due to several factors including: high status [[grave goods]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Russell |first1=Miles |last2=Smith |first2=Martin |last3=Cheetham |first3=Paul |last4=Evans |first4=Damian |last5=Manley |first5=Harry |date=2019-07-03 |title=The girl with the chariot medallion: a well-furnished, Late Iron Age Durotrigian burial from Langton Herring, Dorset |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00665983.2019.1573551 |journal=Archaeological Journal |volume=176 |issue=2 |pages=196–230 |doi=10.1080/00665983.2019.1573551 |issn=0066-5983}}</ref> found predominantly in female graves and the society being [[Matrilocal residence|matrilocal]].<ref name=lmc/> After the Roman conquest, their main ''civitates'', or settlement-centred administrative units, were [[Durnovaria]] (modern [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]], "the probable original capital") and [[Lindinis]] (modern [[Ilchester]], "whose former, unknown status was thereby enhanced"<ref>Bruce Eagles, "Britons and Saxons on the Eastern Boundary of the Civitas Durotrigum" ''Britannia'' '''35''' (2004:234-240) p. 234. {{doi|10.2307/4128631}}</ref>). Their territory was bordered to the west by the [[Dumnonii]]; and to the east by the [[Belgae#Belgae outside Gaul|Belgae]].