Pengwern was a Brythonic settlement of sub-Roman Britain situated in what is now the English county of Shropshire, adjoining the modern Welsh border. It is regarded as possibly being the early seat of the kings of Powys before its establishment at Mathrafal, further west, but the theory that it was an early kingdom has also been postulated. Its precise location is uncertain.
Post-Roman Welsh kingdoms or tribes. The modern border between Wales and England is shown in purple.
The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons. They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
Celtic warrior recreation, including carnyx and a replica of the Waterloo Helmet
Recreated Celtic village at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales
The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan
Tribal groups in southern Britain c.150 AD