A hoard of gold and silver Roman coins, found near Worcester and said to have been enough to pay a legionnaire's salary for six years, have gone on public display for the first time. The coins, expected to be valued at more than £100,000 in today's money, were discovered in Leigh and Bransford by a member of the public in late 2023.
Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.
A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.
A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first time such a system has been documented in European prehistory.
Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, restored, it rides again.
Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an incredibly rare Iron Age helmet. The discovery was made by the British Museum during a 15-year project analysing 14 hoards of gold,
The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements, including a site near Dorset nicknamed “Duropolis” by the archaeologists who work there.
DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s families.
When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or at least, that’s how Julius Caesar and other witnesses described the situation in this new and strange territory.
Scientists from Trinity College, Dublin, and Bournemouth University collaborated to learn about the societies of Iron Age Celts and Britain.