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Iceni

The Iceni were a Brittonic tribe inhabiting the area of modern Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire during the Iron Age and early Roman period.

Kind: kingdom
Region: Western Europe, Europe
Recorded period: to AD 61

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Stater: Three-Petal Flower (obverse); Horse and wheels (Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.156)

20 BCE–10 CE

The Iceni were a native tribe inhabiting Norfolk, Suffolk, and parts of Cambridgeshire. They were described by the Romans as powerful, unbroken by war. In AD 61 the king of the Iceni, Prasutagus, died, leaving his apparently considerable wealth to his two daughters and to the Roman Emperor, as joint heirs. However,…

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