Tristan Hughes

And what is a high-ranking individual of the late Iron Age like?

What are they supposed to be in the eyes of the community?

What skills are they supposed to have?

What can we gather from that with the surviving archaeology?

What insights can we get into late Iron Age community from those burials and things like that?

And it's not just men we should be thinking about in these positions of power in Iron Age Britain, is it, Tom?

So some of those graves in East Yorkshire, with chariots in them, also belong to women?

Yes, oh yes.

Those are the high status women, you know, that they're interacting with.

But that, you know, that evidence from graves in East Yorkshire and also in Dorset is kind of the two main areas where we find a lot of human remains from the Iron Age.

Your dead relative buried under the floorboards sometimes?

Well, once again, we've done Ice Age examples of cannibalism where it's actually a part of the ritual.

I'm not saying that for Iron Age stuff at all.

But once again, getting our mind around different ways that they honour the dead, of their family and so on.

And there's some bog body examples, aren't there?

Quite a few from Iron Age Britain.

We're going to explore one particularly grim other way of dying in a bit.

We're going to explore human sacrifice.

But before we get there, you mentioned fighting in battle.

Is this a clear part of Iron Age British society?