Gold coin of Verica with a naked horse-riding female warrior with a spear and VIR (for Verica) and REX. // An Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research.The study shows that Verica, who was central to the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43AD, was in fact a woman.The discovery re-writes the history of early Roman Britain, according to Bournemouth University archaeological researchers.Verica was ruler of the Atrebates, a tribe whose territory covered much of present-day Hampshire and West Sussex.
The artistic impression shows Verica as Rex (an Iron Age queen or, from the Roman perspective, a 'female King') around AD 40 wearing Iron Age clothes (tunic and shawl), a gold brooch and gold necklace torc (made in the Roman Empire and similar to those found in the Winchester hoard), Roman gold earrings and with a Julio Claudian hair style (of a type modelled by first century AD Roman empress Livia, wife of Augustus). (Miles Russell and Macsen Russell via SWNS)
Gold coin of Verica with a naked horse-riding female warrior with a spear and VIR (for Verica) and REX. // An Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research.The study shows that Verica, who was central to the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43AD, was in fact a woman.The discovery re-writes the history of early Roman Britain, according to Bournemouth University archaeological researchers.Verica was ruler of the Atrebates, a tribe whose territory covered much of present-day Hampshire and West Sussex.
The artistic impression shows Verica as Rex (an Iron Age queen or, from the Roman perspective, a 'female King') around AD 40 wearing Iron Age clothes (tunic and shawl), a gold brooch and gold necklace torc (made in the Roman Empire and similar to those found in the Winchester hoard), Roman gold earrings and with a Julio Claudian hair style (of a type modelled by first century AD Roman empress Livia, wife of Augustus). (Miles Russell and Macsen Russell via SWNS)
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An Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research.
