Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Crispianus]

This statement by Tacitus implies that the Brythons had planned to live off wheat that the Romans were going to use for themselves in the future by capturing supplies from the wheat in granaries held in Roman Towns, knowing that they had not planted enough wheat to last themselves.

This on reflection seems an unlikely scenario.

"Apart from the fact that the army would never have held enough stores to feed such a large native population"

"A remarkable effect of the fire is that it preserved organic materials which would not otherwise have survived. The conditions had to be right: the objects must burn enough to char but not enough to turn to ash. This suits grain and as a result there are many instances in the Boudiccan debris of charred material of this kind. Charred wheat grain is especially common there being piles of it on the floors in buildings at balkerne lane,culver street and the cups hotel sites" etc...

And goes on to say it was well processed and stored... which suggests to me that the Celts didn't take large quantity's of foodstuffs that where deliberatly stored around the town, which is at odds with the capturing supplies theory...

" The pots had all been smashed as if the britons had gone on the rampage before finally setting the buildings alight"

you can in fact find out what the population of colchester was eating and drinking on the day the town was burnt with a high degree of certainty... a little bit of pompeii...

quotes from: "City of Victory" The British Revenge, P.Crummy

See also: Colchester Archaeologial Reports etc database is searchable with keywords.

Also: https://www.thecolchesterarchaeologist.co.uk/