He first led the Silures, then moved to the territory of the Ordovices, where he was defeated by Ostorius in AD 51.
12.
While he was away governing Gaul, the Silures tribe set up an official inscription dedicated to him despite their usual hostility to Rome.
13.
Another track from the Silures EP, " 21 Ghosts ", was featured on Richard X s " Back to Mine ".
14.
This violent desperation on the part of the Silures can be attributed to their reaction to what Peter Salway calls Ostorius'lack of political judgement.
15.
It was Sedgwick who established the Cambrian system and Murchison first described the Silurian, naming it for the ancient Silures tribe which occupied mid Wales.
16.
Around AD 55 it moved to Usk, for the conquest of the Silures, a tribe very resistant to the imposition of Roman rule in Wales.
17.
The Silures especially continued to harass Roman troops, supposedly after Ostorius had publicly said that they posed such a danger that they should be either exterminated or transplanted.
18.
Caratacus fled the storming of the town, taking refuge with the Ordovices and Silures tribes in Wales and becoming a Welsh folk hero for his resistance to Rome.
19.
In Wales the known tribes ( the list may be incomplete ) included the Ordovices and Deceangli in the north, and the Silures and Demetae in the south.
20.
It is thought that the construction of these defences was related to a general uprising of the Welsh tribes, the Ordovices and Silures, that occurred at this time.
