For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and the power of Rome was questioned. In 60 AD, Britain had been a Roman province for less than 20 years. Like the other frontier ...

Iron Age village discovered in Essex may have been burnt down by Roman forces in retaliation for the Boudiccan revolt of 61 AD, archaeologists claim Experts excavated the 'important' settlement at ...

The Celtic queen Boudicca shown on a 19th-century engraving. ... 60, she has been lauded for her defense of Britain from excessive taxation, property loss, and enslavement under the Roman Empire.

Boudicca fights for freedom, leaving Colchester and London burning in her wake. Show more “Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was ...

In response, Boudicca united the local Celtic tribes and led a revolt against the Romans. They leveled the Roman administrative center of Londinium (London) and sacked two other Roman towns.

The skulls likely date from the first century A.D. and may possibly—just possibly—be victims of the famed Queen Boudicca's troops, decapitated during her uprising against Roman rule in 61 A.D.