Dekantai

Iron Age people · Northern Britain (Caledonia) · attested 30 BC–AD 300

The Dekantai were a people of Northern Britain in the Iron Age. Like almost every people of this period, they are known essentially through outside observers, and what survives is little more than a name and an approximate location. The name is attested as Dekantai probable [pleiades] .

Approximate locations — points, not territories (Pleiades representative coordinates). Colour marks region; the borders of these peoples are unknown. Tap a point for the people.

We do not draw a territory for the Dekantai. Their borders are unknown and contested; the point above marks only an approximate location, not an extent — and there is no line of descent from this people to the later clans or to anyone today. Beyond this ancient attestation, no verified later record attaches to the name.

Other peoples of Northern Britain

Boresti? · Damn(on)ioi/Daunoni · Epidioi · Kairenoi · Karnonakai · Kornaouioi · Kreones · Lougoi · Noouantai · Otadinoi · Ouenikones · (S)Mertai · Selgoouai · Taixaloi

Sources

[ptolemyGeographia] Ptolemy, Geographia, Book II (c. AD 150) — the Greek geographer’s list of the poleis and peoples of Britain and Ireland. Public domain (ancient text)
[pleiades] Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places (pleiades.stoa.org). CC BY 3.0 (attribution required) · link