Jewellery discovered beneath Colchester hidden for almost 2,000 years.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
The wealthy Roman woman was likely killed by Boudicca's army.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
Posted on 09/04/2014 1:43:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
Jewellery discovered beneath Colchester hidden for almost 2,000 years.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
The wealthy Roman woman was likely killed by Boudicca's army.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
PinGGG!.................
You can’t take it with you.
A favorite source of this immigration was what is now North Africa and what was then a roughly 300 year old part of the conquered Carthaginian Empire. It seems all the chariot dust and other man made stuff had turned a once thriving savanna/tropical climate into a semiarid desert and new homes had to be made for the immigrants elsewhere in the empire.
Colchester was near ground zero for this immigration wave.
Fast forward two centuries or so and the King of the Colchester area was Old King Cole of nursery rhyme fame. Supposedly, he got his name from the city and his skin color, so was most likely a North African Berber by ancestry.
Needless to say, the original natives of the area didn't have a great appreciation of the diversity imposed upon them by Rome.
Sounds oddly familiar to today...................
For those who might like more.
http://www.atomagazine.com/details.cfm?ProdID=109
I don’t work for them, I just buy.
Location, location, location (small front negates large numbers), discipline and tactics won the day (again). In this battle the Romans were outnumbered by at least 10:1 and still chewed up the opposition.
The vengeful queen? She was a patriot . . . and a grizzly mama.
Thanks Red Badger.
They love to make stuff up. They have no evidence someone hid this treasure from Boudicca’s advancing Armies. Perhaps a man pilfered the items from a wealthy trader and then hid them under the floorboards and before he could fence them for good Roman coin he had a stroke which left him paralyzed and unable to speak so he could not tell his blind children and hunched backed wife where he put them.
My ancestors came from the British Isles, I hereby claim my right to a percentage.
Fascinating stuff.
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No disrespect and I am a fan and student of Queen Boadicea and used to view the great Thornycroft statue near Westminster bridge back when I lived in Londontown
But that quote has been regenerated by fembots to their liking......she never said that ...
She was quite familiar with statecraft as queen while her Icenjan husband had peace with the Romans for years....she knew you didn’t antagonize those you wish to die for the cause.....and when she made that speech they all knew their chances were poor....
Taunting the men in that fashion
According to Tacitus....I think....she said.....”as for this woman....I intend to fight.....I ask all to follow me or feel the Roman yoke”
That’s my memory at 3am and paraphrased but the nuance makes a difference
Its disingenuous for feminazis to claim a wrath driven warrior like her as their idol given today how they as pillars of the Left detest war...at least in our defense
Fair enough. I know that she was able to stand against the Romans fairly well, where as so many before her had not been able to.
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