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Remarkable 2,200-Year-Old Celtic Warrior Grave Complete With Horses, Chariot, And Shield Unearthed In Yorkshire
Next, read about the Iron Age Celtic woman found buried inside a hollowed-out tree trunk in Zurich and then learn the legend of Scathach: the warrior woman of Irish mythology.
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Why Was the Largest Iron Age Hoard Found Buried on a Remote Island? New Research Has Clues
In 2012, two detectorists on Jersey, an island in the English Channel, made a discovery 30 years in the making. In a tightly packed clump of earth spanning 11 square feet, Reg Mead and Richard ...
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Celtic Women Ruled Iron Age Britain, 2,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals
When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other ... spanning from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Fascinatingly, they found evidence of ...
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Mystery behind world's largest Iron Age Celtic hoard 'SOLVED': Experts reveal why £4million haul of 70,000 coins and jewellery found in 2012 was buried in Jersey
More than a decade ago, metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles unearthed what proved to be the world's largest Iron Age Celtic hoard. They found 70,000 silver coins, 11 gold torques (neck ...
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The Celts
The Iron Age name comes from the Celtic discovery of iron ... it’s not surprising that they took part in the fighting! A famous warrior was a woman called Boudicca, or Buddug in Welsh.
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Tomb of a Highborn Celt
During a routine investigation of an area slated for construction in the village of Lavau in north-central France, archaeologists happened upon one of the most remarkable Iron Age discoveries of ...