Ancient Britain (Historical Map and Guide): 6

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Britain's unique location - between the Atlantic and continental Europe - means that it has experienced the fullest extremes of climate.

The warlike Brigantes occupied the largest section of what would later become Northern England and a significant part of the Midlands. Their name derives from the Celtic goddess Brigantia. Territorially the largest tribe in Britain, their kingdom, centred in what later became Yorkshire, is referred to as Brigantia.

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They probably consisted of a group of tribes ruled by a single dynasty, their territory originally stretched from what is today West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.The Younger Dryas was followed by the Holocene, which began around 9,700 BC, [21] and continues to the present. There was then limited occupation by Ahrensburgian hunter gatherers, but this came to an end when there was a final downturn in temperature which lasted from around 9,400 to 9,200 BC. Mesolithic people occupied Britain by around 9,000 BC, and it has been occupied ever since. [22] By 8000 BC temperatures were higher than today, and birch woodlands spread rapidly, [23] but there was a cold spell around 6,200 BC which lasted about 150 years. [24] The plains of Doggerland were thought to have finally been submerged around 6500 to 6000 BC, [25] but recent evidence suggests that the bridge may have lasted until between 5800 and 5400 BC, and possibly as late as 3800 BC. [26] Available evidence seems to indicate that the tribes of the Middle Iron Age tended to group together into larger tribal kingdoms during the Late Iron Age. [1] They are mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia, as being west of the Silures. He refers to two of their towns, Moridunum (Carmarthen) and Luentinum (identified as the Dolaucothi Gold Mines near Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire). They are not mentioned in Tacitus' accounts of Roman warfare in Wales, which concentrate on their neighbours the Silures and Ordovices. Anglesey, or Mona as it was then known, was a stronghold of the Druids. The Druids encouraged the Celtic Britons to resist the Roman conquest, and accordingly were specifically targeted by the Romans for destruction. On the eve of the revolt of Boudicca and the Iceni in what is today East Anglia, the Roman Army has only just completed the long and difficult task of conquering the tribes living in the Welsh Mountains. The druids made a last stand on Anglesey where they were then slaughtered. Iron age roundhouse The Demetae It is not clear where the boundary between the Votadini and the other large tribe, the Brigantes, was, although it probably frequently shifted as a result of wars and as smaller tribes and communities changed allegiances.