A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Once their time at Shrewsbury was over, the couple kept in touch and made their life in Taunton following their wedding in Minehead in the 1970s. When Sue, now 74, was born prematurely in Newton Abbot ...

This December 800m of vital path repair works were completed at Chanctonbury Ring in West Sussex, one of the most prominent landmarks along the South Downs Way, and also one of the spookiest... Learn ...

Evidence of the existence of the pre-historic peoples of Wales is to be found all over the country, literally on the ground ...

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...

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