Author: * Miranda Catuvellauni - 1 Post on this thread out of 133 Posts sitewide.
Date: Aug 12, 2003 - 19:04

The Demetae


Tribe: Demetae
Capital: MORIDVNVM
Location: Carmarthen, Dyfed.
Extent: S.W. Dyfed.
Notes: Hillforts influenced by S.W. England.


Principal Tribal Sites

The Civitas Capital
MORIDVNVM [DEMETARVM] (Carmarthen, Dyfed) - The site of a Flavian? fort. The only polis attributed to the tribe by Ptolemy, the name also appears in the Antonine Itinerary, as Muridunum. The civitas capital may have been only a vicus attached to the fort.


Romano-British Buildings
?Aber-Cyfor - Romano-British buildings included a tessalated pavement.
Cwm Brwyno (Dyfed) - Native settlement in a loop of the
Afon Rheidol, with an enclosing earthwork of a Romanizing form.
Ford (Dyfed) - Settlement on the Afon Cleddau. There are several native hillforts and raths in the neighbourhood of the crossing over the Afon Cleddau.
Parc-yr-Eglwys, Eglwys Cymmyn (Dyfed) - Roman buildings inserted into Iron Age earthworks oferlooking Carmarthen Bay, south-east of Tavernspite.
?Trelissey (Possibly: Treleddyd, nr. St. David's, Dyfed) - Roman building within an Iron Age site.

? these settlements are mentioned in Town and Country in Roman Britain by A.L.F. Rivet, but cannot be readily identified on modern maps.