The Durotriges are one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman invasion.
The tribe lives in modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset and Devon east of the River Axe.
After the Roman conquest, their main civitates, or settlement-centered administrative units, sre Durnovaria (modern Dorchester, "the probable original capital") and Lindinis (modern Ilchester, "whose former, unknown status was thereby enhanced").
(Bruce Eagles, "Britons and Saxons on the Eastern Boundary of the Civitas Durotrigum" Britannia 35 (2004:234-240) p.
234.
)Their territory is bordered to the west by the Dumnonii; and to the east by the Belgae.
