ABSTRACT
Julius Florus and his Treverans were quickly overcome by Roman forces in the Ardennes Forest, but Julius Sacrovir and his Aeduans were more robust in their bid for freedom: their army had the advantage that many of their soldiers had been trained and equipped in the Roman fashion. Boudicas grove was dedicated to Andraste, goddess of victory and, in a sense, she may have been seen as the divine aspect of Boudica herself, for the queens name incorporates the epithet bouda meaning victory. In seeking to establish linkages between Monas Druids, whose clash with the Romans in ad 60 was virtually simultaneous with the events led by Boudica, the evidence of material culture is of vital importance. Archaeology can tell us a great deal that classical writers, like Tacitus, omit, usually because they were interested in broad political and military manoeuvres rather than the detail of provincial life.
