Carvetii
Attested: IN C CARVETIOR on a lost inscription plus two fragmentary milestones.
Where: Probably a civitas around Carlisle.
Name origin: Possibly ‘deer people’ based on a word like Welsh carw and Latin cervus, derived from PIE *ker- ‘horn, head’.
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