The Ancient Tribes of Scotland & Northern England
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The Celts of Great Britain are an enigmatic group, whose Celtic language and Celtic culture have fascinated many people for centuries, both within England, Scotland, and Wales, and in the outside world.
The history of these Celtic tribes is often left unsaid, but this video aims to change that. Here I will show a brief overview of the Britons and their Brythonic tribes in the north of Great Britain, tying them into English history, Scottish history, and even showing their connections to the history of Wales.

The tribes being discussed in this video include, in England: the Brigantes, with their queen Cartimandua, king Venutius, and king Vellocatus, the Gaul-connected Parisii, the Gabrantovices and Sentantii, the Carvetii of Northern England, and the barely-mentioned Lopocares, Tectoverdi, and Corionototae.
In Scotland, the Celtic tribes include the wealthy, Roman-favoured Votadini (later Gododdin of Welsh poetry), the rebellious Selgovae, and the less-mentioned Novantae and Damnonii in the south-west. While to the north, in Caledonia, they will include the Epidii, Creones, Carnonacae, Caerenii, Cornavii, Lugi, Smertae, Decantae, Vacomagi, Taezali, Venicones, and finally the Caledonii.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - England: The Brigantes
6:00 - The Parisii, Gabrantovices, and Setantii
10:05 - The Carvetii, Lopocares, Tectoverdi, and Corionototae
12:05 - Scotland: The Votadini, Selgovae, Novantae, and Damnonii
15:06 - The Epidii, Creones, Carnonacae, Caerenii, Cornavii, Lugi, Smertae, Decantae, Vacomagi, Taezali, Venicones, and Caledonii

Sources:
Barrow, G. (1990). The tribes of North Britain revisited. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 119, 161-163.

Breeze, A. (2006). Three Celtic Toponyms: Setantii, Blencathra, and Pen-y-Ghent. Northern History, 43:1, 161-165

Breeze, D.J. (2008). Civil government in the North: the Carvetii, Brigantes and Rome. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 8, pp.63-72.

Charles-Edwards, T.M. (2013). Wales and the Britons, 350-1064. Oxford: OUP, pp.34-35.

Cunliffe, B. (2004). Iron Age Communities in Britain. Routledge.

Cunliffe, B.W. (2012). Britain begins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1–5.

James, S. (2005). The World of the Celts. London ; New York: Thames & Hudson, pp.47–48.

Mann, J., & Breeze, D. (1988). Ptolemy, Tacitus and the tribes of north Britain. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 117, 85-91.

McCarthy, M. (2005). Rerigonium: a lost ’city’ of the Novantae. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 134, 119-129.

N. J. Highham (1987) Brigantia Revisited, Northern History, 23:1, 1-19.

Porter, J. (1876). History of the Fylde of Lancashire. pp.3–5.

Primary Sources:
Ptolemy's 'Geography':
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...

Tacitus's 'Annals':
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_An...)

Tacitus's 'Agricola': https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agricola

Music courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library:
Ether Oar - The Whole Other
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June - Bobby Richards
Psychic Need - Chasams
Dark Matter - Chasams
Leoforos Alexandras - Dan Bodan
New Land - ALBIS

Thumbnail map:
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Images:
Satellite images from Google Earth (with credit present in corner).
Pendant, and two harness fittings. Two rings, metal debris, ingot, and Awl. Bead. Ring, axe head, bead, and casting waste. - CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via the Portable Antiquities Scheme. https://finds.org.uk/

All other images are public domain, via the British Library, the National Library of Wales, the Yale Center for British Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Digital Commonwealth.

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