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Archaeologist Claims Roman Britain's Verica Was a Queen
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An archaeologist has proposed that Verica, the exiled British ruler who urged Emperor Claudius to invade in AD43, may have been a woman. Dr Miles Russell of Bournemouth University points to the Latin name ending, the neutral title Rex on coins and imagery of a naked woman on horseback. The idea is controversial, but would reshape how historians picture the politics of Iron Age Britain.
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