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English: Upshire: Queen Boadicea's Obelisk Queen Boudica, (or Boadicea as she was known when the obelisk was erected, hence the use of that name in the title), reputedly committed suicide by eating poisonous berries to avoid capture after her Iceni army was defeated by the Romans under their governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, in either AD 60 or 61. The obelisk marks the location where local tradition has it that she died, after the battle at nearby Ambresbury Banks in Epping Forest. However there are several other competing candidates for the site of this battle, with a location somewhere along the Roman Road Watling Street currently being favoured. The nearest point on Watling Street to this site is some 25 kilometres or about 15 miles distant.
Although not particlarly large the obelisk merits individual inclusion on all the scales of the Ordnance Survey mapping, up to and including the 1:50,000 scale version. The obelisk is locally listed by Epping Forest District Council as a structure of historical or architectural interest. |
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| Author | Nigel Cox |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Nigel Cox and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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