The best surviving areas of Iron Age farming can be seen on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, the Cheviot Hills and other upland areas. The earliest 'brochs' date from 500-200 BC ...

The style of the woolen cloak in which she was wrapped dates this woman to the late 16th century, distinguishing her from the more common Iron Age bog bodies. She was in her late 20s or early 30s ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

The author discusses the question whether iron was known in the Vedic age, and advances evidence ... especially as to the dates, may be open to question, but the find of ancient iron weapons ...

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 ...

The prehistoric bones date back as far as 2,500 years - pictured is a dig at Magdalene College at Oxford University An infant with Down's syndrome dating from the Iron Age has been discovered with ...

"The fact that it dates not just to the Iron Age, but to the first few centuries of ironworking in Britain, is remarkable," he said. "What's more, the size of it suggests we're looking at a hearth ...