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Message:: [QUOTE="RAGNAROK, post: 2895784, member: 84566"]My bonnie <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Celtic Durotriges Cranborne Chase Silver Stater, South Western Britain (Wessex area), circa 58 BC-AD 43, 5.7 g, 20.1 mm; Obv: stylized head of Apollo r., Rev: stylized horse l., thirteenth pellets; Ex. Brighstone, Isle of Wight (Vectis) 2005 Hoard; Chris Rudd, "ABC" 2157.<a href="http://www.celticcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Brighstone.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.celticcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Brighstone.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.celticcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Brighstone.pdf</a> [ATTACH=full]696483[/ATTACH] The Durotriges ("fort dwellers/runners"?) were a close-knit confederacy of smaller units ("tribes") centred upon modern Dorset. Their tribal capital was Maiden Castle (Dorset) and/or Durnovaria (Dorchester). The Avon was the eastern boundary of their kingdom. The Durotriges were separated north of the Dobunni by the Salisbury Plain. The names of the kings of Durotriges have not reached us. They had trade relations with their Armorican neighbors and were excellent sailors. [ATTACH=full]696489[/ATTACH]Chris Rudd map.[ATTACH=full]696486[/ATTACH] In AD 43 the Durotriges were vanquished by Flavius Vespasianus and his Legio II Augusta...  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie65" alt=":meh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />   <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... (now is when [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] is going to check his army... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] will scream (with all his might): I want one! I´m Celt!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). Greek generals paid Celtic mercenaries with gold staters of Philip II of Macedon. The Celts did the rest... The Celtic Way, ye know what I'm talking about... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (I have "mirrored" the reverses): [ATTACH=full]696487[/ATTACH] Early British coin art is...  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie97" alt=":vulcan:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:"Surrealistic!".<a href="http://www.writer2001.com/morphphil2paris1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.writer2001.com/morphphil2paris1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.writer2001.com/morphphil2paris1.htm</a>Thirteenth pellets, 12+1... (representing the number of lunar months in a year... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).A design that began in Macedon c. 340 BC ended in Dorset c. AD 43... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><a href="http://pasttimesandpresnttensions.blogspot.nl/2014/09/purpose-and-pattern-abstraction-on.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pasttimesandpresnttensions.blogspot.nl/2014/09/purpose-and-pattern-abstraction-on.html" rel="nofollow">http://pasttimesandpresnttensions.blogspot.nl/2014/09/purpose-and-pattern-abstraction-on.html</a> [ATTACH=full]696490[/ATTACH] Barbarian copy or Celtic art? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />What do ye think?? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> No illegals drugs were used during the production of this paper.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie18" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />In case of doubt read the works of Carl Jung...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ---Chris Rudd, Ancient British Coins, 110-113, 2010.Martin Papworth, Deconstructing the Durotriges, BAR 2008.Cheetham, P, Hambleton, E, Russell, M, and Smith, M, Digging the Durotriges, Current Archaeology, 281 / 36-41, 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durotriges" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durotriges" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durotriges</a>[/QUOTE]

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