Editing Durotriges (section)

== Name ==
[[File:Britain Celtic Silver Stater, Belgic Migration Durotriges, about 60 BC, obverse.jpg|thumb|left|Silver Stater, stylised head of [[Apollo]], about 60 BC, obverse]]
[[File:Britain Celtic Silver Stater, Belgic Migration Durotriges, about 60 BC, reverse.jpg|thumb|left|The reverse of this Celtic [[coin]] showing a stylised horse with eye behind pellets]]
[[File:Celtic gold stater Durotriges tribe.jpg|right|thumb|British Celts, gold [[stater]] from the Durotriges. Chute type with strongly Celticized, disjointed horse left and abstract head of [[Apollo]] on the right.]]
The tribe's name is known from [[Geography (Ptolemy)|Ptolemy's ''Geography'']] and from two inscriptions on [[Hadrian's Wall]], both dating from after the [[Roman conquest of Britain]].<ref>Deconstructing the Durotriges. A definition of Iron Age communities within the Dorset environs. BAR British Series 462, 2008. Martin Papworth. ISBN 978 1 4073 0221 8.</ref> It is not known if anyone referred to them as the Durotriges before they arrived in the area now known as Dorset.

The name can probably be broken down into two parts. 'Duro', which means 'hard' or 'strong place' and was widely used for early Roman forts, and 'trig' means inhabitant.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?trigolion | title=Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru }}</ref> That would produce a meaning of 'fort dwellers', appropriate for the region's many hill forts (although these appear to have been largely abandoned by the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43).<ref>Stewart, Dave and Russell, Miles. (2017) Hillforts and the Durotriges: a geophysical survey of Iron Age Dorset, pp. 155-70. Published by Archaeopress ({{ISBN|9781784917159}})</ref> 
'Duro' has also been derived from 'dubro', the British word for water ('dour' or 'dwr'), and the second element has been interpreted as 'riges', that is 'kings'.<ref>Deconstructing the Durotriges. A definition of Iron Age communities within the Dorset environs. BAR British Series 462, 2008. Martin Papworth. ISBN 978 1 4073 0221 8. p.26</ref>