08-16-2012, 03:36 PM
If you ever get down there look out for the pub sign, it's a ghostly Legionary in front of some ghostly mounds, the "ghostly" is probably down to years of fading.
http://www.rhubarb-inns.co.uk/threehills/
The current theory is that the mounds are late 1st and 2nd century and belong to a wealthy civilian family. So the theory that they are somehow associated with the IX defeat needs some manipulation of current interpretation, particularly late dated coins as I recall. Still viable if the site is honourific and used for some time after the event i.e. 2 generations.....but that's the advantage of the armchair isn't it.
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=374152
http://www.rhubarb-inns.co.uk/threehills/
The current theory is that the mounds are late 1st and 2nd century and belong to a wealthy civilian family. So the theory that they are somehow associated with the IX defeat needs some manipulation of current interpretation, particularly late dated coins as I recall. Still viable if the site is honourific and used for some time after the event i.e. 2 generations.....but that's the advantage of the armchair isn't it.
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=374152