Silures

Silures, an ancient people inhabiting the south-east of South Wales and the adjoining English area—Glamorgan, Brecknock, Monmouth, Radnor, Hereford. They were a dark and curly-haired race, and were probably of a non-Aryan stock—Iberian or Euskarian—though ultimately Celticised in language and manners. Less civilised than their British neighbours, they were more warlike, and offered fierce resistance to Ostorius Scapula and the other Roman commanders who invaded their country. See WALES, BASQUES, CELTS; Elton's Origins of English History (1882), Rhy's Celtic Britain (1882).