Brigantes - Settlements

Settlements

Ptolemy named nine principal poleis or towns belonging to the Brigantes, these were:

Latin name Modern name County
Epiacum Whitley Castle Northumberland
Vinovium Binchester County Durham
Caturactonium Catterick North Yorkshire
Calatum Burrow, Lonsdale Lancashire
Isurium Brigantum Aldborough North Yorkshire
Rigodunum Castleshaw Greater Manchester
Olicana Ilkley West Yorkshire
Eboracum City of York York
Cambodunum Slack West Yorkshire

Other settlements known in Brigantian territory include:

  • Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications (North Yorkshire), near Darlington - one of the largest Iron Age settlements in Britain; probably the site of Queen Cartimandua's court.
  • Wincobank, on the border of Sheffield.
  • Bremetenacum Veteranorum (Ribchester, Lancashire)
  • Calcaria (Tadcaster, North Yorkshire) - mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna Cosmography
  • Luguvalium (Carlisle, Cumbria) - probably a settlement of the Carvetii
  • Coria (Corbridge, Northumberland) - perhaps a settlement of the Lopocares

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