Following Watling Street, Paulinus conducted systematic punitive sweeps through Iceni territory in Norfolk and Suffolk. Roman columns burned farmsteads, confiscated grain, and slaughtered livestock. Tacitus records the actions were so brutal and counter-productive that procurator Julius Classicianus wrote secretly to Rome complaining that Paulinus was making peace impossible and that Britain would never be quiet while he remained. Paulinus was recalled.
Mixed legionary vexillations and auxiliary cohorts operating in punitive columns; no significant organised resistance
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