What is in a name? Well for me it starts to give something substance, in this case an Iron Age man. Cartivelios is the name of what is described as a sub King, a local big wig of the Corietltauvi polity in the late Iron Age period. His name appears on coinage in this period. Whether this is was his actual name or some Latinised version is moot. So is this the portrait of the local war lord, our terminology? Well no, it is supposed to be the portrait of an ordinary trades or business man who plied the salt ways of the Iron Age transporting salt. However there is no reason why an ordinary person wouldn’t also have the name of the local great and good after all how many Charles are there?

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