Suetonius Paulinus marched quickly from Wales to Londinium but arrived to find the city impossible to defend. He made the cold strategic decision to abandon it — those who could not follow the army (the old, the women, the attached civilians) were left to Boudicca. The burnt layer from 60 AD, containing Roman pottery and coins, is still found several feet below modern London streets.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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