The Brutus Stone can be found in Totnes Fore Street, set into the pavement on the right hand side, as you walk up the street towards the East Gate Arch. The stone is next to no. 51 Fore Street, and is easily missed on a busy day.

The Stone is linked in legend to a Trojan Prince who landed in Totnes whilst searching for an island promised to him by the goddess Diana. In 1170 BC, after the Trojan War, Brutus and a band of followers set out to find this promised land. They landed in Totnes with Brutus using the 'Brutus Stone' to disembark from their ship - as he stepped ashore onto the stone, he said;

"Here I stand, and here I rest. The town shall be called Totnes".

Brutus and his followers were, according to the legend, the first people to reach the shores of Britain; making Totnes, and the Brutus Stone, the place of origin of the British People.
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we are Brutians

Heres a vote for the Goddess,rule Britannia.
leave the hunting to us big stupid men.
Arise goddess and reclaim whats Yours.
Have You seen the plonkers they have now.
Mr Greedy and Mr Arrogant.
We really need You back, rule Brittania.

Didn't we do this one to death a whileback?

Descriptive names like the "Painted Ones" - Prytani and Picts are generally applied by outsiders. We know that recent hunter/gatherer tribes like the Inuit call themselves the Inuit but it just means The People. In other words we are US and everyone else is THEM

I reckon the early peoplle of Britain didn't havea name for Britain at all because they had no concept of the land as a whole archipelago. Each community has their territory and that was home. Names for other places would have been descriptive or personal. So there is no original name for Britain. You can consider the names used by the Romans or the Greeks or the Phoenicians or any other visitors, but I don't think you will find any name used by the inhabitants.

Hmmm.

http://themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=23627&message=269099&offset=50

Anyone mention Britt-os yet?

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I'm still not 100% sure how big Brigit was in what is now England. The odds are high, but there is nowhere near the evidence available that exists in Ireland for her mass veneration - as St Bridget she is second only to Mary and matches Patrick for sites devoted to her. In Kildare (Kil D'ara - The Church of the Oak) she had an eternal flame mantained by nuns until William the Conquerers men destroyed it.

Britton was the word the R*mans used to describe the people of that spoke what are now called the Brythonical languages Cornish, Welsh and Breton. Why they chose that is anyone's guess. It could just be the tribal name of the north French Gauls they first encountered. These could have been the people of Bree or Bri, an ancient Goddess with Brigit connections.