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Parisii (Britain)
Origins
The Parisii are identified with the Arras culture of the Yorkshire Wolds, which from about the 4th century BCE buried its dead under small square barrows, sometimes with dismantled two-wheeled vehicles, as at Wetwang and Garton Slack. The likeness of these burials to rites in northern Gaul, and the shared name with the Parisii of the Seine, has fuelled long debate over migration or contact.
Rule and society
Society was based on mixed farming on the chalk Wolds and in the Vale of Pickering, with large cemeteries of thousands of barrows. Chariot burials of men and women, with harness fittings, mirrors and brooches, point to an elite who displayed status through horses and fine metalwork. No coinage is attributed to them and no rulers are named.
Decline and legacy
The area came under Roman control during the campaigns of Petillius Cerialis against the Brigantes from 71. Ptolemy later listed Petuaria as their town, and an inscription from Brough-on-Humber names an aedile of the vicus of Petuaria; the Parisi probably formed a small civitas of Roman Britain.
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