Archaeologist Miles Russell has proposed that Verica, the Iron Age ruler whose appeal to Roman Emperor Claudius may have helped trigger Rome’s invasion of Britain in AD 43, could have been a woman. His theory draws on the ruler’s name, coin imagery and inscriptions, alongside evidence of women’s social status in Iron Age Britain. Although the claim remains unproven, it challenges traditional assumptions about political leadership and raises questions about Britain’s pre-Roman history. Source: The Times of India/ToI
