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The authors of this paper were invited to attend a conference on 'Ancient Vermont' held at Castleton in Vermont in October 1977,and to examine and comment upon the 'evidence' for the extensive occupation of New England by Celts and others in the first or second millennium BC as propounded by Professor L. B. Fell of Harvard University. The 'evidence' consists broadly of supposed 'Ogam' and 'proto-Ogam' inscriptions on rocks and stones and megalithic stone structures, some of the structures...
Warrior Queen and Sacred Goddess: The Name Boudicca, "Victorious Woman," on Gravestones and Roman Writings, from Iberia to Gaul to Britannia to Germania. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. How does archaeology record the name of a warrior queen, goddess, and ordinary woman? Photos record the evolution of a sacred name across Europe. Variations of the Celtic name Boudicca ("Victorious Woman" or "Victoria") appear on gravestones and in Roman writings across a...