At the end of the last ice-age,about 10,000 years ago, our ancestors moved northwards to the Russian Steppes from "The Fertile Crescent". It may have been about this time that they discovered the principles of farming rather than wandering around looking for food as “Hunter Gatherers” and so they prospered.

With population growth, they had to move and our ancestors then wandered down to the Black Sea and from there up the Danube River and into western Europe.

Those who eventually reached England over a number of migrations, became a loose confederation of Tribes, known as the Brigantes, occupying the north of England. 

The name seems to mean ‘the high ones’, because either they occupied the mountainous region of the north of England or 'the high one' because they were followers of the Celtic Godess, Brigantia. 

The following are believed to be some of the tribes involved:

The Corionototae about which little is known.

The Lopocares were a conjectural group inhabiting the area around Corbridge in Northumberland

The Setantii a tribe who lived in the western and southern part of Lancashire.

The Votadini who occupied south east Scotland from Hadrian’s Wall up to Edinburgh.

The Pecaetans who occupied a portion of north Cheshire and Derbyshire.  

Here they lived happily until the Romans turned up. There seems to have been a love hate relationship between the two and some Brigantes may have been driven up to the borders with Scotland; while others went the whole way and settled north of the border (The Votadini?).

This site is an attempt to unite us all.and to also see if we discover which of the above tribes are ours.