ABSTRACT
According to Derek Allen the Boudican rebellion and its consequences put the territories most fully engaged with the uprising back into the dark ages, and delayed the Romanisation of East Anglia by at least a generation. The rape of the girls may, perhaps, be perceived in parallel with the rape of Icenian lands, the stripping of material assets and looting. There is no record of retribution for either the rape of the royal Icenian children or the illegal flogging of Boudica, and it is almost certain than none was meted out to the perpetrators, though at least Decianus Catus was stripped of office for his part in the bungled attempt to annex Prasutaguss kingdom. The use of architecture and religion as tools of cultural reconciliation and conflation, as has been suggested in the context of Roman Bath and at other towns, such as Verulamium, is reflected in Tacituss scornful description of the British aping of Roman ways.
