For instance, Celtic women were sometimes buried with luxurious ... including an adult woman, her daughter, her adult granddaughters and a likely great-grandson. Eight of 10 family members who ...

Although there are a few distinctive beasts that are place-specific, many ghosts, fairies, and goblins pop up in similar forms across the various Celtic mythologies.

Celtic women’s social and political standing in ... Unlike more common patrilocal systems in which a woman marries into a husband’s family, matrilocal arrangements provide women with more ...

Boudica of Iceni was portrayed as a tall, fierce woman, who led an uprising against ... of their claims about the special role that women had in Celtic Britain.” But the debate won’t be ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or at ... been supported by finds in Celtic cemeteries in Dorset ...

Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women's blood lines, according to new research. Skeletons unearthed in ...

Skeletons unearthed in Dorset contained DNA evidence that Celtic men moved ... originating with one woman. "This points to an Iron Age society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of ...

Historical accounts from the Romans describe powerful Celtic women, such as queens like Boudica ... the combination of a sword and a mirror suggests this woman had high status within her community ...

DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be traced back to one woman, and showed ... with Roman descriptions of Celtic women. The researchers concluded ...

HerStory is celebrating the modern women who embody the qualities of Brigid, Ireland's Celtic goddess and saint.