Summary: This episode focuses upon the year 60 and the story of Boudica, queen of the Iceni. The year was 1907. A young boy swimming in the river Alde spotted something shiny in the water. What he found was the bronze head that clearly had been hacked from the body a statue. He took it home, painted it white, and placed it in his garden. My American listeners likely have their heads spinning upon hearing this, but occurrences like the bronze head in the garden aren’t exactly uncommon. For example, the guy who found Seahenge had earlier found an axe that was thousands of years old and he just kept it on his mantle for a while. Anyway, so the head was kept in the garden... until it was recognized as an artifact by some local experts and it was determined that it was the head of the Roman Emperor Claudius from the first century AD. He ended up selling it for five shillings. …
