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This book considers the evidence for the Durotriges, one of the groups of people listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. Traditionally it has been believed that the Durotrigans formed a tribe whose territory included Dorset and parts of neighbouring Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. More recent commentators identify significant differences between the communities living within this Durotrigan area. This survey of the region brings together the evidence gathered by archaeologists working across the Durotrigan zone and combines it with new fieldwork and analysis. It is proposed that the Durotrigan people resulted from a gradual linking of disparate groups between c.200 BC and AD 40. This may have been no more than a fragile alliance forming a convenient economic and military association.