Remains found in an Iron Age burial chamber on the Isles of Scilly belonged to a female warrior, according to the authors of a new study that challenges long-held assumptions about the historical role of women in warfare.
This stone burial chamber — along with fragmented human remains, a sword and a mirror — were found on the island of Bryher in England in 1999. U.K. archeologists now believe it belonged to a woman warrior from the Iron Age.Iron Age remains found on the Isles of Scilly belonged to a female warrior, according to the authors of a new study that challenges long-held assumptions about the historical role of women in warfare.
Stark works for Historic England, a public agency dedicated to the preservation of historical sites, which led the study into the Iron Age remains.Iron Age graves with swords usually belong to men, while those with mirrors tend to belong to women, says Stark. But the Bryher burial site contains both.
Stark says there's a lot we don't know about Iron Age Britain before the arrival of Romans — but one thing we know for sure is that violence and warfare was common. Archeologist Bettina Arnold, who was not involved with the study, cautioned against assuming the presence of a sword means the person was a warrior.
Arnold says she doesn't doubt the existence of female warriors in history, and that, in fact, men may have also been wrongly assumed to be soldiers because of the weapons found in their graves.be certain about any individual case, she says you would require multiple lines of evidence, such as markings on the remains that indicate an individual hadThe human remains found at Bryher, however, are badly fragmented and poorly preserved.
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