Brigantes

A British tribal federation and civitas. The name means ‘upland people’ or ‘hill-dwellers’, which is appropriate to the Pennine heartland. Not surprisingly, such a vast area was not the fiefdom of a single tribe but rather of a loose confederation. There may have been a central place for the whole federation, possibly at Almondsbury near Huddersfield or at Stanwick near Scotch Corner. Certainly by the time the Romans reached their southern borders, the Brigantes were led by a single ruler, Queen Cartimandua.

A Dictionary of British History. Ed. John Cannon. Oxford University Press, 2001.