The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved ...

The British might once have ruled the waves with an empire covering almost a third of the globe but nowadays, it seems, most of us do not know one end of the country from another.

New research led by Historic England has unveiled that a 2,000-year-old burial on Bryher island at the Isles of Scilly actually belonged to a warrior woman.

Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman. Published. 27 July 2023. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. Image source, Historic England. Image caption, ...