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Caereni

 

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The late Iron Age tribe living in the far northwest of Scotland at the time of the Roman conquest, but completely unaffected by it. The traditional settlement pattern of broch and dun spanned the later 1st millennium bc through to the mid 1st millennium ad.

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A tribe of Roman-era Scotland, part of the Caledonian confederation. They occupied a territory coextensive with north-west Sutherland (until 1974) in the Highlands.

 
 
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Iron Age tribes in Britain
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