Bronze Unit Hengistbury Hairy

The Durotriges occupied what is now Dorset and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire, and their coinage underwent a long, documented decline — from gold to debased silver to bronze — as Roman pressure on southern Britain intensified in the decades before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. The Hengistbury Head type takes its name from the major Iron Age port and trading site on the Hampshire coast, a hub for cross-Channel commerce with Armorica that Rome eventually disrupted. By the time bronze units like this were circulating, the tribe's economy had contracted sharply.