Verulamium, the Roman municipium north of modern St Albans, was the third city destroyed in the revolt. Unlike Colchester and London it was not a Roman garrison town but a flourishing market town of the Catuvellauni. Its destruction is vividly attested archaeologically with a thick fire layer. Tacitus records the combined toll of all three cities as around 70,000 dead — a figure that shaped Roman policy in Britain for a generation.
c.70,000 total killed across all three cities per Tacitus
Boudiccan army sacks undefended town
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