Iron Age people living on the Iberian Peninsula in the last millennium BCE had a striking funerary tradition: chopping off people’s heads and hanging them in prominent places—sometimes with a ...
A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ...
“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...
The new study challenges the long-standing belief that all severed heads from Iron Age Iberia were war trophies. Instead, the evidence suggests a nuanced funerary tradition, varying from site to ...
An Iron Age hoard discovered in England is on a "kind of scale and size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even Europe." ...
The Melsonby Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 and meticulously excavated since, represents one of ...
A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...