Great Britain
See also: Iron Age tribes in Britain- Ancalites (uncertain: speculatively Hampshire and Wiltshire)
- Atrebates (an important Belgic tribe of Southern England)
- Attacotti (origin uncertain)
- Belgae (Wiltshire and Hampshire)
- Bibroci (mentioned by Caesar, location uncertain but possibly Berkshire)
- Boresti (sometimes Horesti) (In or near Fife, Scotland according to Tacitus)
- Brigantes (an important tribe in most of Northern England and in the south-east corner of Ireland)
- Caereni (far western Highlands)
- Caledones (along the Great Glen)
- Cantiaci (in present-day Kent which preserves the ancient tribal name)
- Carnonacae (western Highlands)
- Carvetii (Cumberland)
- Cassi (mentioned by Caesar, possibly south-east England)
- Cateni (north and west of Sutherland) - they gave the county its Gaelic name Cataibh
- Catuvellauni (Hertfordshire) - Belgic tribe, neighbours of the Iceni, they joined in their rebellion
- Cenimagni (mentioned by Caesar, perhaps the same as the Iceni)
- Corieltauvi (East Midlands including Leicester)
- Corionototae (possibly a tribe) (Northumberland)
- Cornovii (Midlands)
- Cornovii (Caithness)
- Cornovii (Cornwall) (a sub-tribe, or sept, of the Dumnonii)
- Creones (Argyll)
- Damnonii (Southwestern Scotland)
- Decantae or Ducantae (eastern Ross and Black Isle)
- Deceangli (Flintshire, Wales)
- Demetae (Dyfed, Wales)
- Dobunni (Cotswolds and Severn valley)
- Dumnonii (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset)
- Durotriges (Dorset, south Somerset, south Wiltshire)
- Epidii (Kintyre and neighboring islands)
- Gabraniovices
- Gangani (Llŷn Peninsula, Wales)
- Iceni (East Anglia) - under Boudica, they rebelled against Roman rule)
- Lugi (southern Sutherland)
- Novantae (Galloway and Carrick)
- Ordovices (Gwynedd, Wales) - they waged guerrilla warfare from the north Wales hills
- Parisii (East Riding of Yorkshire)
- Regnenses (Hampshire) (a Belgic tribe)
- Scotti (western portion of Scotland)
- Segontiaci (probably south-east England)
- Selgovae (Dumfriesshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright)
- Setantii (possibly a tribe) (Lancashire)
- Silures (south Wales) - resisted the Romans in present-day south Wales
- Smertae (central Sutherland)
- Taexali (Angus and Grampian)
- Trinovantes (Essex) - neighbours of the Iceni, they joined in their rebellion
- Vacomagi (in and around the Cairngorms)
- Venicones (Fife and south-west Tayside in Scotland)
- Votadini (north-east England and south-east Scotland) - they later formed Gododdin
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