Tag: Watling Street
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Boudicca’s Rebellion
Alex Kingston portraying Boudica in the 2003 film “Warrior Queen” Kingdom and household were plundered like prizes of war, the one by Roman officers, the other by Roman slaves. As a beginning his (Prasutagus) widow Boudicca was flogged and their daughters raped. The Icenian chiefs wre deprived of their hereditary estates as if the Romans…
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Roman villa in Scarborough & London section of Watling Street unearthed
As reported by Historic England and others in April 2021: Rare Roman remains were discovered in recently at the site of a new housing development in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The potential for discovering Roman ruins had been identified at the site in Eastfield, so archaeologists employed by the developer Keepmoat carried out excavations as part…
