03-04-2011, 03:47 PM
That seems to be the way he's playing it, the new edition maps indicates a flanking linear trench earthwork, I haven't yet spotted it on any aerials.
With a force of 10000 troops congregating over the course of several days/weeks I have to assume there would be several camps built to accommodate the troops. Thats what makes Church Stowe so compelling, it's the only theory that offers up the potential for such earthworks and is willing to stick it's neck out and say "dig here" so it should be an easy one to rule in or rule out.
Whilst I'm fixated by this game of spot the battlefield, I'll be even more fixated if there turns out to be 7 previously unidentified 1st century forts and a battlefield slap bang in the middle of England...anyway let sleeping theories lie if they ever find the site there will be eggs on faces all round, as it's almost certainly not going to be any of the sites currently on the table.
With a force of 10000 troops congregating over the course of several days/weeks I have to assume there would be several camps built to accommodate the troops. Thats what makes Church Stowe so compelling, it's the only theory that offers up the potential for such earthworks and is willing to stick it's neck out and say "dig here" so it should be an easy one to rule in or rule out.
Whilst I'm fixated by this game of spot the battlefield, I'll be even more fixated if there turns out to be 7 previously unidentified 1st century forts and a battlefield slap bang in the middle of England...anyway let sleeping theories lie if they ever find the site there will be eggs on faces all round, as it's almost certainly not going to be any of the sites currently on the table.
