The druids were also partial to human sacrifice, as recreated in 1973 horror movie The Wicker Man.Cesar recounts that they “make images of enormous size, with the limbs woven from osiers [willows].

THE ANCIENT face of one of Scotland's "oldest druids" who lived during the Iron Age has been recreated. Digital and wax models reveal "Hilda", a wealthy woman who lived in Stornoway as far back as ...

Iron Age mystery of the 'Essex druid' Grave near Colchester could be the first burial site of an ancient mystic ever to be discovered in Britain. Andrew Johnson. Sunday 20 April 2008 00:00 BST.

The Iron Age was the time in point in which the Druids made up the higher-educated tier of Celtic society. They were poets, doctors, and spiritual leaders that led people to seek a higher ...

A druid watches the sunrise by the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England, as access to the site is given to druids, New Age followers and members of the public on the annual ...

During the Iron Age, women’s average life expectancy was around 30 years old. But Hilda, a druid woman who lived on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis at some point between 55 B.C. and 400 A.D., died at ...

Today the word "druid" conjures thoughts of magic, wizardry, and spiritualism, but in ancient times the definition of Druid was much broader. During the Iron Age, the Druids made up the higher ...

Could a pair of bronze spoons predict your future? Found in burials, bogs, and riverbeds across Iron Age Britain, these mysterious spoon-like objects may have played a role in lunar divination and ...

A student has revealed the face of a female druid from the Iron Age in a 3D wax reconstruction. Karen Fleming from Dundee University has recreated the head of a woman believed to have been from ...

The Druid woman, nicknamed Hilda, lived during the Iron Age. An anatomical analysis suggests that Hilda made it into her 60s, an impressive feat because most women from that region and time lived ...

THE ANCIENT face of one of Scotland's "oldest druids" who lived during the Iron Age has been recreated. Digital and wax models reveal "Hilda", a wealthy woman who lived in Stornoway as far back as ...