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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - Vindex - 08-09-2014
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?
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - Nathan Ross - 08-09-2014
Quote:At the risk of straying even further off topic
Might the posts above, from Deryk's question about forts in Wales, be more profitably split into a new thread?
Apart from keeping the topic focussed, I'm sure many people don't even bother looking at ths thread any more! :whistle:
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - John1 - 08-10-2014
Boudicca called out again for Silchester;
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/08/silchester-roman-town-closes-natural-geology-archaeological-excavation-ends
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - Theoderic - 08-11-2014
Hi Nathan
I have created a new thread - but no takers so far
Just trying to add a little flesh to the bones and sort out some anomalies......
Perhaps its a little risky?
Kind Regards - Deryk
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - John1 - 09-03-2014
At the risk of making this a general Boudicca thread (admins please move if another thread would be better);
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/colchester_roman_find_of_national_importance_discovered_under_williams_griffin_store_1_3756005
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - MonsGraupius - 09-04-2014
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?
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - John1 - 09-06-2014
A bit more on the Colchester find;
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2014/colchesters-hidden-roman-treasure
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - Vindex - 09-06-2014
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.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - davidscott - 09-30-2014
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.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - davidscott - 09-30-2014
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.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - John1 - 09-30-2014
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.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - davidscott - 09-30-2014
Yes it is. All three things. I occasionally visit Pury Farm, closeby. It is inviting to believe in a site that is familiar.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - davidscott - 09-30-2014
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/
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - Robert Vermaat - 09-30-2014
Quote:Towcester may have been the forward base for SP and was not burnt because the B had not reached there.
Ehmm guys.. I know this discussion has been raging for a full century here, but please.. for those of us not-yet-initiated-into-Baudica-Mysteries.. stick to full names will ya?
B = Brigantes I think?
SP = Suetonius Paulinus.
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - davidscott - 09-30-2014
Sorry another correction.
B=Boudicca (not ''the B'')