The Paranormal Database

Three Skeletons

Location: Birdlip (Gloucestershire) - Barrow Wake, Crickley Hill
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 1879
Further Comments: Three skeletons, two male and one female, were discovered here in 1879. Objects found with the bodies included a silver brooch and a mirror, the value of which led some to speculate the grave belonged to Boudica.

Boudica in battle.

Burial Site

Location: Birmingham (West Midlands) - Parsons Hill, Metchley Camp, field next to McDonald's, Kings Norton
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: When Roman remains were discovered in this field, a few declared the area to be Boudica's final resting ground. Unfortunately, there is nothing to indicate that this is really the case.

Cammeringham Light

Location: Cammeringham (Lincolnshire) - Area around Ermine Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950
Further Comments: This large white misty shape has been observed as it travels around the village. Some believe this to be the ghost of Boadicea who fought her final battle nearby.

Another Battle Site

Location: Church Stowe (Northamptonshire) - Valley west of Church Stowe
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: John Pegg nominated this area as Boudica's final battle site in 2010 after a landscape analysis.

Boudica

Location: Epping Forest (Essex) - Hill Fort, Ambresbury Banks
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Claimed by some to be her grave (and others, her final battlefield), Boudica has been reported loitering in the area.

Boudicca's Graves

Location: Garboldisham (Norfolk) - Soldier's Hill (barrows) on the heath
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: As it is widely thought that Boudicca resided in this area of Norfolk, these barrows are contenders as the final resting place of the warrior queen.

Battle

Location: Handley Cross? (Dorset) - Exact location unknown
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local tradition says that the Queen of the Iceni fought a battle here, though there is no evidence to confirm this.

An image of Boudica on her chariot, taken from the book Britain's Greatness Foretold - the Story of Boadicea the British Warrior Queen.

Boudica's Defeat

Location: High Cross (Leicestershire) - Watling Street and the Fosse Way junction
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area is another possible contender for where the warrior queen's army fell.

John Thurlow Reade

Location: Ipsden (Oxfordshire) - Icknield Way, white memorial stone
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: 1827?
Further Comments: John's ghost was seen by his mother on the spot now marked by the memorial stone - he had just died in India at roughly the same time of the sighting. The Icknield Way has several more ghosts reported along it, including phantom coaches, shucks, Romans, and Boadicea's legion.

An AI's version of Boudica.

Boudica's Last Stand

Location: Mancetter (Warwickshire) - General area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: First century AD
Further Comments: The village of Mancetter is one of the likely places where Boudicca fought her last battle against the Romans, a fight that cost the Iceni 80,000 men, women, and children.

Boudica's Battle

Location: Messing-cum-Inworth (Essex) - Site known as 'The Rampart'
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Local legend states that this was the site of Boudica's final battle.

Guiding Light

Location: Nannerch (Clwyd) - Moel Arthur Hill
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An unearthly ball of light is said to periodically appear on the hill to lead treasure hunters to a mass of treasure buried somewhere here. However, once the digging site is reached, a violent storm will spring up and drive the would-be raiders away. The hill is another contender for the final resting place of Boudicca.

Platform 10 of King's Cross Station, London.

Boudica's Grave

Location: NW1 (Greater London) - King's Cross Station, Platform 10
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: The final resting ground of the warrior queen is reported to be under this busy platform.

Boudica's Grave

Location: NW3 (Greater London) - Barrow known as Boadicea's Grave, Hampstead Heath
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Local folklore says that the barrow is Boudica's final resting site, although it could just be a Bronze Age burial mound belonging to someone else entirely.

Boudicca's Grave

Location: NW5 (Greater London) - Parliament Hill Fields
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: A mound here is reputed to be the final resting place of Boudicca.

Final Battle

Location: Outer London: Stanmore (Greater London) - Stanmore Common
Type: Legend
Date / Time: 61 AD
Further Comments: The common has been named as a contender for the last battle of Boudica, though Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson state this story may have come into being in the nineteenth century.

Boudica's Defeat?

Location: Paulerspury (Northamptonshire) - Cuttle Mill area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Site still present
Further Comments: This area is another claiming to be the final battle site of Boudica after topographic analysis based on the writings of Tacitus, a historian of the Roman Empire.

Boadicea

Location: Quidenham (Norfolk) - Low mound, around 300 metres from the church, known as Viking's Mound
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: This site has been named as another contender for the final resting place of Queen Boudicca.

Boudica's Grave

Location: SE15 (Greater London) - Peckham Rye Park & Common, meadow by Strakerr's Road
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: John Chaple has written that Boudica's final battle took place here, rather than a more northern site, and that she is buried close to where she fell.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Trelawnyd (Clwyd) - Gop Carn
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1938
Further Comments: Ghostly Roman troops have been reported patrolling the site. Some believe the hill is the final resting place of Boudicca, others say it is that of a Roman general.