Editing Nervii (section)

==Culture==
[[Julius Caesar]] considered the Nervii to be the most warlike of the Belgic tribes, and that the Belgic tribes were the bravest in Gaul. He says that their culture was a Spartan one: they would not partake of alcoholic beverages or any other such luxury, feeling that the mind must remain clear to be brave. He also says they disliked foreign trade and neither had a merchant class nor would permit merchants within their territory.<ref>{{Citation|title=The conquest of Gaul|last=Caesar|first =(transl S. A. Handford)|year=1982|publisher= Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-190414-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrGDlCHNufEC}}, page 65.</ref>

Archaeologists have sought to define the territories of the northern Belgic tribes by looking at the coins they used. The Nervii are associated with a [[stater]] type that uses a Greek [[epsilon]].<ref name=wightman20>{{Citation|title=Gallia Belgica|last=Wightman|first =Edith Mary|year=1985|publisher= University of California Press|isbn=9780520052970| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEyS54uSj88C}} page 20.</ref>

Remarkably, given the archaeological evidence of a Celtic [[La Tène culture]] having been present in the pre-Roman past, Caesar reports that the Nervii had no cavalry. In fact they [[Pleaching|established hedges]] throughout their lands in order to make them difficult for cavalry.<ref name=wightman30/>

The [[Frasnes hoard]], accidentally unearthed by foresters in 1864 near [[Frasnes-lez-Anvaing|Frasnes-lez-Buissenal]] in [[Hainaut (province)|Hainaut]], along with coins associated with the [[Morini]] and the Nervii, also contained characteristically Gallic gold [[torc|torque]]s, one of which was in Alastair Bradley Martin's Guennol collection.<ref>Thomas P.F. Hoving, "'Valuables and Ornamental Items': The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair Bradley Martin" ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'' New Series, 28.3 (November 1969:147-160) p. 152.</ref>