11-04-2012, 06:42 PM
Quote:I do not view it in the same way that you do.
I'd have to agree that the river is a problem - Tacitus's apertam planitiem... sine metu insidiarum ('open plain, without fear of ambush', approximately, I think: basically somewhere with no cover for the enemy) doesn't suggest a river valley to me - the banks of the river, however shallow, would offer the Britons a defence against Roman counterattack.
I think we'll just have to agree to differ on this one though...
Incidentally, I would dismiss Mancetter on a number of grounds. The 'water feature' would be only one of them!
Nathan Ross