Iceni
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The Iceni or Eceni were an ancient tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and Suffolk
Iceni plate brooch found at Caistor St Edmund (Norfolk Museums Collections)
Iceni coin
Iceni coin (reverse)
Boadicea and Her Daughters by Thomas Thornycroft
Boudican revolt
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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
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…nominally independent under king Prasutagus until his death around AD 60. Roman encroachment after Prasutagus' death led his wife Boudica to launch a major revolt from 60–61. Boudica's uprising seriously endangered Roman rule in Britain and resulted in the burning of Londinium and other cities. The Romans finally crushed…
Bronze head, probably of Nero and struck from his statue in the revolt, in the British Museum