Female tribal leaders Cartimandua ... divorce and lead the Celtic armies. Julius Caesar himself noted the seemingly exotic practice of British women taking more than one husband in his book ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community where husbands ... Julius Caesar wrote that British women could take multiple husbands.

The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic societies were matrilocal with married women staying in their ancestral communities. Human societies have ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

Matrilocal practices characterized many British Celtic ... had suggested Celtic women held considerable status. Greek and Roman writers described powerful female political leaders in Iron Age ...

Torcs were a form of elaborate jewellery that were worn around the necks of tribal leaders and other important people within Celtic society ... of the BBC or the British Museum.

The ring is believed to have been worn by a Celtic tribal chieftain A 2,000-year-old ... The "jaw-dropping" jewellery was bought by a British private collector on Wednesday after it spent the ...