Boudica's Battle of Britain
The Ancients
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The Rough Grass of Budica
archaeology is incredible. And where you're able to test the archaeology against Tacitus's account, it matches pretty perfectly. It also enables you, and that's what I've been concentrating on, is tracking down exact locations where these things happened. So set the scene, first of all, 60 AD, Roman Retania. What's the big causes that lead this massive revolt? The Akane, Budica's tribe from northern East Anglia, so effectively North Suffolk, Eastern Cambridge, they made peace immediately. They didn't fight. But in AD 59 or 60, the king of the Acadiany, Prasutagus dies. He brings his client ship and the client
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