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Posted on 11/10/2026 12:46:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, Iron Age British ruler Verica was actually female and not male, contrary to long-held assumptions. Verica ruled the Celtic tribe called the Atrebates in the first century A.D. and was a central figure in the Roman invasion of Britain. After she was ousted from power in A.D. 40, she fled to the Roman emperor Claudius and convinced him to invade the island three years later. The new research was led by Bournemouth archaeologist Miles Russell, who said that the patriarchal mindset of nineteenth-century classical historians is largely to blame for the confusion over Verica's gender. He argues that like other British female leaders of the time, Boudicca and Cartimandua, her name ends in an "a." Scholars have also assumed Verica was male because of the term rex, Latin for "king," that appears on her coins. However, Russell contends that the title is not gender-specific and was even used by Cleopatra. Furthermore, the iconography on her coins further strengthens the new theory. "Whilst other coin producing British Iron Age leaders portray obviously male warriors, Verica is depicted as a slender, feminine, bare-breasted figure riding on horseback," Russell said. "We should take the archaeological evidence at face value and remember Verica as a female-king and one of the earliest and most important of British female leaders." To read about another female Celtic ruler, go to "Lost Tombs: Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni."
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Gold coin of Verica depicting a naked horse-riding female warrior with a spear and the inscriptions VIR (for Verica) and REX© Museums Victoria Collections/CC BY 4.0 International License
That’s one high-steppin’ horse.
Riding sidesaddle?
Maybe... I’m not a historian and I have no idea on Verica. But there’s a political bias here: you don’t see anybody coming forward with a theory that Nefertiti, or Cleopatra, or Victoria, was really a man.
After all, you can advance your academic career by revealing girlbosses of the past. It’s New Age channeling all over again, and just as reliable!
Lady Godiva.
Case in point, the delusional search for Nefertiti is back in the news, along with the claim that she ruled under a completely unrelated name as a male pharaoh.
Verica is depicted as a slender, feminine, bare-breasted figure riding on horseback,
Early Only Fans?
Such an important strong female: she sold out her country to the Romans, begging them to invade? Hoping she would be reinstalled as a vassal? Or just vindictive.
I just saw a blurb the other day that Morgan Fairchild’s joined Only Fans (she must be in her 70s by now).
She’s already got chocolate bars, so she really only responds to silk stockings.
I believe she's 76 now.
It was Peter and Gordon, not The Beatles.
Where's the grave?
It has to be, her legs are longer than the horse’s!
The origin of the cheer “Our side is better than your side!”
Peter and Gordon. Dunno who wrote it, but it wasn’t the B’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWBpq2dCF0
Oh wow. This is the version I remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akfq4srYNrw
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