Bikinis, totty, violence......next on my playlist from you tube....review of history on its way.
Kevin
Oh dear, oh dear......worth watching for the totty, nothing more.
Kevin
I recently re-read Anya Seton's novel titled the Mistletoe and Sword concerning, you guessed it, Boudicca and the "ambush" of the IXth Legion.
Interestingly, well known in her day for good research although she fails to list the secondary sources she consuled, Seton places the final battle for Boudicca in Epping Forest.
Now, there's a thought...(although of course it would not have been known as Epping Forest in AD60-odd)
Moi Watson
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
Quote: [Apparently Essex folklore has Ambresbury Banks hillfort in Epping Forest as the site of the battle - perhaps that was all Seton was going on?
More than likely, but I doubt it would be moving to cut her off; from what?. We are assuming from the folklore that the Romans pursued Boudicca after her defeat. What if it is the original site of the battle and assumptions that Paulinus was going up Watling Street are wrong and he was going down it instead?
Perhaps Paulinus was hoping to meet up with the expected Second legion?
:evil:
Moi Watson
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
Quote:I doubt it would be moving to cut her off; from what?
One of my original pro-Dunstable suggestions was that the only thing Paulinus could know about the movements of Boudica's force is that, at some point, they would have to head back to their own land (this wasn't a tribal migration, and they needed to plant winter crops). Leaving them an avenue to do so - either back the way they'd come or up Watling Street to the Iknield Way - would risk the appearance that he had let them escape, which would have further damaged his reputation.
I did suggest that the route through Essex would have been stripped bare by the Britons in their advance from Colchester, making the Watling route more likely. But perhaps this was not so. By moving his small and mobile force south-east from St Albans (assuming that's where he pulled back to from London) and placing them somewhere around Epping, Paulinus could threaten their rear and block their route home. Meaning that they would have to turn back from whatever plundering they were doing along the Thames and fight him...
This is essentially the same theory as Grahame Appleby's one for his (nearby) Arbury Banks site, although he has the Britons using Iknield, iirc.
I am pleased that, at long last, this thread seems to have found it's level.
Moi Watson
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
Not quite sure what that means. Sounds a bit superior, Vindex Speculator!
I quite like the notion of the of SP 'luring' B and the Trinos back to the East.
And maybe one of us will manage to hit Page Quinquaginta