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Britain's Iron Age society centred on WOMEN, breakthrough study claims
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Researchers from Trinity College Dublin say that Britain 's Iron Age society centred on women.
Women inherited land and made their husbands move to live with them, they say.
Evidence from 157 archaeological sites suggests this kind of community existed in six English Iron Age sites.
The findings could be evidence for Julius Caesar's claims that women in Iron Age Britain had multiple husbands.
It seems that before the Roman conquest of England in 43AD they had already established connections with lots of tribes and could have exerted a degree of political influence. After 43AD all of Wales and England below Hadrian 's Wall became part of the Roman empire, while Iron Age life in Scotland and Ireland continued for longer..