01-20-2023, 11:14 AM
(01-19-2023, 10:32 PM)John1 Wrote: Well this one definitely lands in favour of Church Stowe...
The author also appears to date the revolt to "59/60"
He gives a few additional options: “The exact location of the battle is unknown, with leading candidate sites including High Cross, where Paulinus had awaited the arrival of Legio II Augusta in vain, Church Stowe in Northamptonshire and Markyate in Hertfordshire…”
I don't know what the criteria for a 'leading candate site' might be. Or why Paulinus would be hanging about at High Cross.
Markyate, though? A vague reference to the Dunstable site, maybe, or his own theory?
In a more recent book the same author repeats the list of sites and writes: "“Interestingly the latter [Markyate] is between Dunstable, a Roman site not destroyed by Boudica (indicating she didn’t arrive there), and St Albans to its immediate south east, which she did destroy…” The reference to water sources in this book suggests that he has been looking at Steve Kaye's work.
Nathan Ross