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A map of Iceni lands in Norfolk. Boudica was the consort of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, [note 1] a tribe who inhabited what is now the English county of Norfolk and parts of the neighbouring counties of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. [12] The Iceni produced some of the earliest known British coins. [13]
Boudica's Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. It is 36-mile (58 km) in length and runs from Norwich to Diss , near the border with Suffolk , and follows close to Roman roads and passes through Caistor St. Edmund , a settlement tracing its roots to the Roman period . [ 1 ]
The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain.It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni tribe.
A 1905 map of Roman Britain, showing how the coastline of Norfolk has changed since Roman times. Following the defeat of Boudicca, the Romans imposed their own order on the region, with an administrative centre established at Venta Icenorum (near the present Caistor St. Edmund ), a smaller town being built at Brampton and other settlements ...
In certain rural regions of Norfolk, Davies and Gregory speculate that the Iceni farmers were impacted very little by the civitas, seeing as there is a scarce presence of coinage and treasures. On the other hand, their surveys found "coin-rich temple sites, which appear to have served as centres for periodic fairs and festivals and provided ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
The town itself was probably laid out, and its first streets metalled, in approximately the first half of the second century. [4] The town, which is mentioned in both the Ravenna Cosmography and the Antonine Itinerary, [5] was a settlement near the village of Caistor St. Edmund, some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of present-day Norwich, and a mile or two from the Bronze Age henge at Arminghall.
Prasutagus (died AD 60 or 61) was king of the Iceni, a British Celtic tribe who inhabited roughly what is now Norfolk, in the 1st century AD. He is best known as the husband of Boudica . Prasutagus may have been one of the eleven kings who surrendered to Claudius following the Roman conquest in 43, [ 1 ] or he may have been installed as king ...