[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)

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!.................

[Mikey_1962]

You can’t take it with you.

[BenLurkin]

[BigEdLB]

BOADICEA

I was whipped by the Romans when they tried to take our lands — and now I am fighting for my freedom. Think how many of us are fighting and why. We must win this battle or die. Let the men live as slaves if they want. I will not.

From historysheroes.org

[Vigilanteman]

Fascinating stuff. Boudicca's rebellion took place in 61 a.d. when the Romans were making an overt attempt to overwhelm the local populace by encouraging immigration from what they considered more loyal parts of their empire.

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.

[BenLurkin]

[Conan the Librarian]

For those who might like more.

http://www.atomagazine.com/details.cfm?ProdID=109

I don’t work for them, I just buy.

[Oatka]

Check out THE ROMAN EMPIRE - THE ICENI REBELLION - a 1 1/2 hour video. For Roman tactics, see 1:16-21, especially at 1:18 on - freaking cool. As one contemporary wrote, "Roman drills were bloodless battle; Roman battles were bloody drills".

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.

[Oratam]

the vengeful queen

The vengeful queen? She was a patriot . . . and a grizzly mama.

[Sawdring]

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.

[rdl6989]

My ancestors came from the British Isles, I hereby claim my right to a percentage.