08-09-2016, 10:13 AM
(08-09-2016, 08:30 AM)John1 Wrote: do these two crop marks look like Roman military to anyone?... Could they have beeen the camps of Paulinus set up followng the Boudiccan campaign?
Possibly, although the angles look a bit sharp. It's probably impossible to say without a bit of excavation.
Either could be Roman military, but there are plenty of other earthwork-type features across Britain dating from all sorts of eras. Cattle enclosures, villa and estate boundaries, earlier and later fortifications...
We already know that the Roman army was active all along this Watling Street route over several decades, though, so identifying a couple of extra forts wouldn't be particularly telling for our purposes, I think.
Nathan Ross