However, the Pagan Lady was buried in a Christian cemetery with this fine necklace. The beads came from far and wide - Britain and Europe - and some were 300 years old when the Pagan Lady wore the ...

The design of the city was heavily influenced by pagan ritual and belief ... and some of the routes the Romans introduced across Britain remain part of our national road network to this day.

But it seems that the pagan influence on some Christmas traditions ... A History of the Ritual Year in Britain" (Oxford University Press, 1996), cites evidence that the 12 days originated in ...