Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

I take the failure to plant in the spring as being a positive policy decision, realising that they were unlikely to be back in time for the harvest and not wanting to have unharvested crops rotting in the fields.

Interesting, and plausible. We'd have to ask Deryk's question above about why the Romans didn't notice this, but I suppose if they'd managed to miss a re-armament program they could also have missed a lack of agricultural activity! It would mean that the planning for the revolt went back several months, of course, but I think we're all accepting that already.

What would they have done with all the seed grain they didn't sow? Could they have simply eaten it?

Good suggestion for a worthy academic paper: The Sowing Season in Iron Age Britain and its Implications for the Date of Boudica's Revolt...

'and the hard-pressing barbarians did not then give up'.

Thanks - that sounds about right!