Editing Selgovae (section)

=== Cultural affinity ===
The ethnic and cultural affinity of the Selgovae is assumed to have been Brittonic and there have been suggestions that they were an integral part of the tribe of the [[Brigantes]].{{citation needed|date= September 2023}}

Archaeological evidence is scant, but it includes a Roman-era figure and inscription found at [[Birrens]] (the Roman [[Blatobulgium]]) that was dedicated to 'Brigantia', similar to dedications found in known Brigantian territory in [[Cumbria]] and [[Yorkshire]].<ref name=brigartifacts>{{Citation
|last=Haverfield
|first=F.
|year=1904
|contribution=On Julius Verus, a Roman Governor of Britain
|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456
|title=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
|volume=XXXVIII
|publisher=Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
|publication-date=1904
|publication-place=Edinburgh
|page=456
}}</ref> [[Tacitus]] says that the Brigantes were a large tribe,<ref name=tac17>{{Harvcolnb|Tacitus|98|pp=362–363}}, ''Life of Agricola'', Chapter 17</ref> and artefacts associated with the Brigantes have been found across the region just north of Hadrian's Wall, both in England and in Scottish [[Dumfriesshire]] and [[Kirkcudbrightshire]].<ref name=brigartifacts/>

The Brigantes were troublesome to Roman rule, strongly resisting initial Roman occupation<ref name=tac17/> and frequently rising in efforts to throw off Roman rule. The Roman response was overwhelming force and the subsequent heavy plantation of forts of occupation. The heavy plantation of forts in the territory of the Selgovae is similar to the Roman occupation of the Brigantes and unlike Roman treatment of other neighbouring peoples such as the [[Novantae]] and [[Votadini]], who were never known to be at war with the Romans, and who were not heavily occupied.

Much later history, better recorded, shows that the territory of the Selgovae was continually associated with [[Cumbria]] (homeland of the Brigantes){{citation needed|date= September 2023}} and [[Kingdom of Strathclyde|Alt Clud]] (homeland of the [[Damnonii]]), both of which are known to have been Britonnic in culture and language.