The Roman historian Tacitus, who lived in Osterby Man's era ... The noose around his neck makes clear that, like other Iron Age bog bodies, he was killed, but following the violent act he was ...

Tacitus described them as red-haired and large ... Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which bodies were naturally allowed to decompose.

Iron Age Celts lived here before and after Christ ... when they were called on by the head of the tribe. The famous Roman Tacitus said the Celtic women were as big and as scary as the men.

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across ...