Dobunni
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne
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Last modified
Nov 13, 2024 08:29 PM
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History
The Dobunni were a Celtic people of pre-Roman Britain.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79423
52.0624031627, -2.05325625342
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
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- Dobunni (30 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Korinion/Cironium capital of Dobunni (unspecified date range)
map label location, people, tribe (historical cultural group)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E2 Dobunni
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: W England
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, and Ryan Horne, 'Dobunni: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79423> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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The name Dobunni/Δοβουνοι is one of very few well-attested names in Roman Britain for which Old Irish supplies the best parallel (as old thinking suggested) for its most likely meaning which is 'two basins'.