Wetwang

Rick - Have a look at the link in my post to the British Museum reconstruction of the Wetwang chariot, if you're interested in a British war chariot of about the right period.

Boudica, Queen of the Iceni Carla 2006

Maybe there's a parallel with the Wetwang chariot?

Boudica, Queen of the Iceni Carla 2006

I looked at the Wetwang reconstruction - the dual purpose aspect is interesting!

Boudica, Queen of the Iceni Carla 2006

Exploration of a medieval manor complex at Wetwang, a small village in east Yorkshire, has revealed a chariot burial dating from the third or fourth century B.C., the earliest Iron Age burial of its kind ever discovered in England.

Chariots of the Celts 2001

The latest discovery at Wetwang follows the unearthing of the first ever Scottish chariot burial, at Newbridge, six miles west of Edinburgh, in March.

Chariots of the Celts 2001

This is the seventh chariot burial discovered in the Wetwang area, which is now thought to have been the tribal center of a Celtic people who became known as the Parisi in the time of Julius Caesar.

Chariots of the Celts 2001

There it casts its arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

There it casts its arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Veteran gobbler chaser Freddy McGuire of Goodview doesn't Wetwang, well that's a name for a ridge village in the dry Wolds.

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Bates reckons heads should roll at the Beeb if Wetwang - where BBC North weather presenter Paul Hudson is mayor - is not brought back.

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