THE BRIGANTES.
A number of coins have, with plausible reasoning, been appropriated by Mr. Evans and other authorities, to the Brigantes, whose dominions seem to have comprised Yorkshire, Lancashire, and other northern parts, and who are indeed said to have been the original inhabitants, the Britons proper, of the island, who had been driven inland and northwards by successive invaders of the soil, and they seem to have been among the latest to retain the original national characteristics. Among the inscribed coins (which are of unusual rudeness) believed to have belonged to them, are those bearing the letters VO·LI·SI·OS on the obverse, and DVM NOCO VEROS, or DVMNO CO VEROS, on the reverse; DVMNOVERO; IISVPSV; VEP, VEP CORF, or VEP RF; DVMN on obverse, and TIGIP-SENO on reverse; AVNT or AVN-T, the AVN being over the back of the horse, and the T beneath its neck.