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Quote:...but they didn't have enough men (in my opinion) to cover the opening of another front on the West of the Silurian Territory in AD58.
At the risk of straying even further off topic, may I please ask what is the basis of your assumption that the XXth did not have enough men?
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Don't the think the Roman's "idiot's guide to selecting a battlefield", might suggest an open plain suited to Roman formations and not e.g. the forest of the Teutoburg disaster?
Oh the grand oh Duke Suetonius, he had a Roman legion, he galloped rushed down to (a minor settlement called) Londinium then he galloped rushed back again. Londinium Bridge is falling down, falling down ... HOLD IT ... change of plans, we're leaving the bridge for Boudica and galloping rushing north.
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I've started a new thread with John1's second post on the Colchester hoard - or the Fenwick Treasure as it is being called - so more will see it.
Moi Watson
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Did anyone else see ' Weapons of Death' on last evening's Yesterday Channel, Monday 29th September?
Weaponry used in the (Boudiccan) uprising against the Roman Army.
Said to have taken place outside the town walls of Lactodurum, ''somewhere between London and Wroxeter'' then switched to the nearby landscape at Alderton, with little evidence, except that the topography fitted Tacitus' description( which was reliable) and that there was a river where the oxen could be watered
The crush of the rebels against their own wagon trains was compared with Hillsborough, which I felt was in extremely poor taste.
I could go on, but it was all a bit gruesome. At best, maybe a wasted opportunity.
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Correction. Instruments (not Weapons) of Death.
And I do realise that Boudicca was not the subject matter, just a peg to hand the programme on.
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I didn't see it, I believe it's a repeat, Alderton is the nearest village to the Cuttle Mill site so almost ceratainly Marix Evans theory.
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Yes it is. All three things. I occasionally visit Pury Farm, closeby. It is inviting to believe in a site that is familiar.
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Another question, please? Regarding burning. Matrix Evans suggests that Towcester may have been the forward base for SP and was not burnt because the B had not reached there.
If this is the case, what about the other Roman settlements between Colchester, London and St Albans and Towcester? Or were they not extant at the time?
Apologies if this has been covered in one of the previous 50 pages/
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Sorry another correction.
B=Boudicca (not ''the B'')
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