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. 14-22mm. 4.00g. Wreath and crescents./ Horse facing left, pellets above, coffee bean to right. ABC 2169, VA 1235-1, BMC 2555-636, S 367. Irregular flan otherwise Gd VF, bold strike, clear wreath and pellets.                         Was £100. Now only £85