Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

So the slope angle is low, valley bottom narrow. The site can be outflanked and over looked rather easily and the field of view for a commander would have been extremely compromised. I see the networks of valleys supposedly concealing Romans as more of a blind, death trap for those same forces.

All this just serves to emphasise the implausibility of Margaret Hughes description of the battle.  Placing the Roman vanguard in the area of the red dot does explain why, in the caption to her Figure 9, she refers to the Britons approaching from the east (although I am still not sure what the photograph is supposed to show) but, in that case, why does she bother in Figure 8 to show the view down the fault-line defile towards the Anker plain?  I thought it was because she placed the Roman vanguard it the point where the defile meets the Coventry Canal, which is why I didn't understand Figure 9.  In any case, there is no need to go on about this at length; the battle didn't happen at Mancetter anyway!