"Boudica Burned Roman London to Ash — and the Proof" Topic

…Is Still There

"Roughly fifty centimetres below the pavements of the City of London — beneath the coffee shops and office basements and the distant rumble of Tube trains — there is a thin, scorched seam of burnt red clay and ash. It has been sitting there for nearly two thousand years, waiting for someone to dig deep enough to ask what happened.

Archaeologists call it the destruction layer. It appears across excavation sites throughout the old Roman city — at the Walbrook, at Lombard Street, at dozens of building sites where modern construction has punched through centuries of accumulated London — and it dates, consistently, to around AD 60 or 61. It is not legend, and it is not interpretation. Burnt clay and ash do not have a rhetorical agenda. This is stratigraphy: the earth itself recording a single catastrophic event, compressed into roughly half a metre of scorched ground…"

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