university of oxford department for continuing education from civilisation to barbarism? western...
TRANSCRIPT
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
From Civilisation To Barbarism? Western Britain in the Early
Middle Ages
Tutor: Dr Kirsten Jarrett
Week Eight: Politics and Power
Provinces of Later Roman Britain
Continuity of Britannia Prima into C6?‘Britanniae’
To Jupiter Best and Greatest, Lucius
Septimius [...] most Perfect of Men,
Governor of Britannia Prima and a citizen of
the Remi, restored [this].
I O M L SEPT ... V P P BR PR REST CIVIS RDate?
Cirencester ‘Jupiter column’
Civitates of Later Roman Britannia
Civitas / Provincial war-bands?
Hawkes and DunningType IB (‘horse-head’) Buckles
Gildas’ kings and kingdoms• Constantine: Dumnonia (Devon and / or Cornwall,
parts of Dorset)Custennin / Custennyn Gorneu ‘Cornwall’?
• Vortipor: Demetae (Dyfed) ‘Vortepor’ stone?
• Aurelius Caninus(Cynan map Brochfael, king of Powys? Gloucester ? Caerwent?)
• Cuneglas: Tegeingl / Decangli (Rhos?)
• Maglocunnus: Venodotia? (Gwynedd – Anglesey?)
Deganwy Castle, Conway, Gwynedd
DEB ch. 33. ‘...dragon of the island, Maglocune...’
Din Eirth, RhosDEB ch. 32: ‘Cuneglasse...thou bear, thou rider and ruler of many, and guider of the chariot which is the receptacle of the bear’
‘Fort of the Bear?’
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle AD 577
‘cyningas’
•Conmail (Cunomaglos) Gloucester?
•Condidan Cirencester?
•Farinmail Bath?
Bokerley Dyke
Wansdyke: East and West
Post-Roman ‘royal’ / ‘tribal’ administration
Covers large area
Probably Anglo-Saxon
Inscriptions and Titles
MEMORIA VOTEPORIGIS PROTICTORISVoteporis the protector [ ‘Vortipor’?]
Castell Dwyran, Abernant, Carmarthen ↖
PRINCIPI FILIV[S] AVDETIPrincipius the son of AudentiusSourton, Devon
BONEMIMORI [F]ILLI TRIBVNIIn loving memory of the son of Tribunus, Rialton, Corn.
• *Teuto-maglos 'prince of the tribe, people‘
• *toutorix ‘king of the tribe, people’ > tudyr
• *Brogo-rix ‘land-king’ > breyr
• *rigal 'kingly, royal'
• *tigernos ‘lord’
TIGERNACI DOBAGNILllangwarren, Pemb.
Men Scryfa, Madron
CVNORIX MACVS MAQVI COLINE Cunorix son of Maqui Coline
Wroxeter
Regional brooch distribution
Type GIngots