Thanks for the info. Fascinating. The most intriguing part was the last sentence, about finding descendants of any of the legionnaires, or the aristocracy at time for that matter. Is there even any DNA evidence that can be used, I wonder.
My last sentence referred to the incinerated remains of the dead followers of Boudicca. Roman remains could very well have been found within months or years, when the Romans rebuilt the towns Boudicca and her cutthroats had destroyed. The Romans stayed in Britian for 400 years, and it was a favorite place to pick up an estate on which to retire. Over the past year or so I've been watching old Time Team episodes on YouTube, and they dug a lot of Roman sites, most of which were previously little- or unknown. At one site the basic layout was thought to be understood, but they found two more bridges over the same river and the rerouting of the main road to bypass what had become the growing settlement. Today, it's a rural area.