The Durotriges, ‘fort dwellers?’ or Durotrages ‘fort runners?’, were a close-knit confederacy of sea-faring peoples in the south-west who controlled two major harbours, Poole and Christchurch, and traded with Armorica. Their territory closely matched that of Anglo-Saxon Wessex, centred on Dorset and defined by the rivers Avon, Wylye, Brue, Yeo and Parrett. Coins made at Hengistbury Head and elsewhere. 

Cranborne Chase. c.58-40 BC. Base silver stater. 18mm. 2.73g. Wreath and crescents./Traces of disjointed horse facing left, pellets around. ABC 2169, VA 1235-1, BMC 2555-636, S 367. Fine, wreath visible                      Was £75. Now only £60