The long-running mystery of a prehistoric grave has finally been solved after years of scientific debate.
New research led by Historic England has unveiled that a 2,000-year-old Iron Age burial site on the Isles of Scilly actually belonged to a warrior woman.
Since its discovery in 1999, archaeologists have mulled back-and-forth over the sex of the individual that possessed both a mirror and a sword.
But new evidence suggests this woman may have been a leading figure – perhaps among many other ‘hidden’ female warriors during the Iron Age.
‘Our findings offer an exciting opportunity to re-interpret this important burial,’ said Sarah Stark, a human skeletal biologist at Historic England.
Maybe she just identified as a woman.
Was it a pork sword?
Of course, it’s totally inconceivable that a high-status male warrior would have a mirror to go with his sword, but its obvious that a high-status woman who had a mirror must have been a warrior-queen because she had a sword
No other evidence is needed.
Queen Elizabeth, of blessed memory, had a sword at her coronation. I’m sure archaeologists have considered that even in the Iron Age swords may have had ceremonial significance.
Perseus had a sword and a mirror.
Maybe he identified as a warrior queen.
Why tf did it take decades of debate?
Why not a wee bit of practical forensics?
No shit Sherlock?
Humans in East Anglia may have been using tools as early as just before the Second World War, it has emerged.
Most early Norfolk technology was used to make cows more sexually alluring.
It had been believed that technology was first used in the remote region in 1994, when a local man picked up a stick and used it to attack a tree.
But archaeologists have uncovered several items which they believe will lead to a radical rewriting of Norfolk history to be read by people who are not from Norfolk.
Among the dramatic finds were a spoon, a box of half-eaten crayons and a device which experts believe was used for putting make-up on a cow.
Meanwhile a Bakelite radio dating from the late 1930s has also been discovered in a shed near Saxthorpe, where it is still worshipped by local tribes as a prophet.
Wayne Hayes, a hedgehog wrangler from Corpusty, said: “Old Talky has been round these parts since before the time of memory. It’s inhabited by the magical Archer family and their tales from the future.”
Other artifacts included an unread PG Wodehouse novel and shards of broken pottery that seem to indicate early Norfolk Man had tremendous difficulty in co-ordinating his three-fingered hands.
Archaeologist, Tom Logan, said: “Local folklore tells of a creature called ‘Ali’ that brought humans to Norfolk, though we think it probably means the A11.
“Nobody knows what drove early Norfolk Man so far East but one theory involves a strong desire to be as far away from Essex as possible without having to live in the sea.”