Clifton Dykes
| Clifton Dykes | |
| Westmorland | |
|---|---|
 High Dykes Farm, Clifton Dykes | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY543272 |
| Location: | 54°38’17"N, 2°42’32"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | CA10 |
| Local Government | |
Clifton Dykes is a hamlet within the parish of Clifton in Westmorland: it is half a mile from Clifton, not directly linked to the latter village but half a mile north-east on a lane, and a mile from the River Lowther.
The name of this place is shown as Longchimney on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1897, and then as Clifton Dikes on the later second edition. The current spelling was settled on more recently.
Clifton Dykes has been suggested as the (pre-Roman conquest) centre of the Carvetti, an Iron Age and Roman-period 'tribe', one that possibly led a resistance against Roman forces in 69 A.D. under the leadership of Venutius.[1] This theory is based on the evidence of a large Iron Age enclosure of about seven acres discovered here, plus assumptions about its strategic importance on the Eden Valley communication routeway. Nevertheless, this has been disputed: the Carvetii may have always been centred on Carlisle even before the Romans established Luguualium and Venutius may not have been Carvetiian.[2]
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- ↑ Higham, N.J.; Jones, G.D.B. (1985). The Carvetii. Peoples of Roman Britain. Stroud: Alan Sutton. pp. ix, 158, p.10. ISBN 0862990882.
- ↑ Ross, Catherine (2012). "The Carvetii - a pro-Roman community?". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 3 12: 55–68.
