Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

Pliny and M Varro and Columella were not enough

Since Pliny does not appear to say what you claim (unless you have another reference?) and Varro says exactly the opposite of what you are implying he says, where are we to go with this? What is your Columella reference?

Hesiod* in his Works and Days, 383 to 384. *Begin your harvest when the pleiades rise, your ploughing when they set".

We already discussed this same passage of Hesiod back here. He was writing in Greece c.700BC, and any agricultural practice which involves harvesting in early May would seem to be quite out of synch with the practices used in northern Europe by the 1st century AD, when a late summer-autumn harvest was well established.

You haven't addressed the point about the revolt starting in summer and the people supposedly still being away in the spring though.

both Nathans and your post are examples of explanations that cannot be supported due to logistical reality.

I would agree that the Romans would not need a supply base in the Midlands for campaigns into Wales, as Wroxeter would provide all they needed in that regard.

But your 'logistical reality' appears to involve the Roman army having no supply or depot network beyond their own immediate campaign centre, no established towns or forts that could supply troops on the march, and an army operating within settled areas having to carry all its own food and water wherever they go. This is not a very likely scenario for AD61!