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  • The Boudican Destruction Horizon: London’s First Apocalypse Beneath Our Feet

    The Boudican Destruction Horizon: London’s First Apocalypse Beneath Our Feet

    Londoners live on layers. Tube tunnels snake under Georgian sewers under Tudor vaults under Roman roads. But there is one layer, charred and defiant, that marks the city’s first recorded apocalypse: the Boudican Destruction Horizon. Dig down beneath modern pavements — beneath Pret a Manger, beneath the glass towers of the Square Mile — and archaeologists…