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The Wetwang Chariot Burials

Wetwang, East Yorkshire

A woman buried on her chariot with a bronze mirror.

In 2001 and 2002, archaeologists at Wetwang found three Iron Age burials, each lying on a dismantled chariot. The Wetwang Woman was buried with horse bits and a bronze mirror.

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When
Iron Age
Where
54.0200, -0.5800
Group
Circles & monuments

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Finds are at the British Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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