Camulodunum
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Camulodunum, the Ancient Roman name for what is now Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain, and the first capital of the province. A temporary "strapline" in the 1960s
Colchester's Roman town walls, with distinctive bands of Roman red bricks
Coin of the Catuvellauni king Cunobelinus minted at Camulodunon
Bronze coin of Cunobelin – note the letters CAMV for Camulodunon at left, an indication of literacy
The Emperor Claudius personally oversaw the Roman attack on Camulodunon. The town was renamed Colonia Victricensis in honour of his triumph, and a Temple was built there to worship him. Its foundation vaults still survive beneath Colchester Castle.
Boudica
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Boudica or Boudicca was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national her
Camulodunum
…the AD 40s on the site of the Brythonic-Celtic fortress following its conquest by the Emperor Claudius. After the early town was destroyed during the Iceni rebellion in AD 60/61, it was rebuilt, reaching its zenith in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. During this time it was known by its official name Colonia Claudia…
Boadicea Haranguing the Britons (1793)
Boudica depicted as a Tudor queen in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)
The statue Boadicea and Her Daughters by Thomas Thornycroft, near Westminster Pier, London
The History of England (1791), illustration by Francis West