06-19-2016, 09:22 PM
(06-19-2016, 08:01 PM)Renatus Wrote: the workshops in insula XIV; the bathhouse in insula XIX
Thanks! Yes, that was what I was thinking of. I'm pretty sure I've seen a plan - presumably of Insula XIV - showing the burned section shaded, but I might have imagined that.
Anyway, assuming the damage is related to revolt, we seem to be looking at a fairly brief trashing rather than a comprehensive destruction (Hingley also mentions a mass of broken pottery, apparently thrown from one of the workshop porticos).
There are various ways to interpret this, of course, but I prefer to think that, after evacuating the town, Paulinus and his troops withdrew only ten miles or so to a defensive site in the close vicinity; the Britons, understanding the threat that he posed them, paused only long enough for some limited looting and burning before moving out against him.
Nathan Ross