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Stephen Yeates asserts that a study of the religion of the
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At the beginning of the 4th century, Britain was reorganised into, initially, four and then five provinces. The
Dobunnic territory lay in the province of Britannia Prima, as described in an inscription found at the base of a
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referred to the tribe as "Bodunni", probably a misspelling of the
Dobunni. Tributary to the Catuvellauni, they capitulated to the invading Romans when
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Dobunni kings subdivided their land between a north and south zone, sometimes becoming unified under a single ruler.
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