Mounted British warrior from the pre-Roman era. He wears a brazen helmet, a mantell gedenawg (shaggy cloak), trousers and shoes, and carries a club. In the background is the chapel in the rock, Nottingham. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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