After Camulodunum, Boudicca turned on Londinium. Governor Paulinus judged the town indefensible and evacuated the army, abandoning the civilian population. The city was burned to the ground — a metre-thick burnt horizon of red clay, scorched grain and debris marks the event in the archaeology of the City of London. This layer of destruction is one of the most dramatic in British urban archaeology.
Estimated tens of thousands killed
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