WOW the thread is back !!!!! Great to see everyone has survived...
"It was whilst I was revisiting some of the posts that are here and an explanation of John .....'s (... surname redacted 'cos I don't want any more hate mail from Atherstone) regarding the difficulty of understanding the translation of “faucibus” as in plurals and explanation of defile/s and gullet that I ran the Latin through a computerised translator and instead of a defile the translation mentions a narrow isthmus as an access to the site as opposed to the standard translation of a defile" - Deryk
Can you remind me where I was dealing with this? I must stress I am no Latin scholar and go to great lengths to defer to others. I struggle with a valley and a half at Church Stowe but generally accept the possibility of there being more than one for the narrative, but my interpretation of the primary valley at CS remains unchanged for the purpose of this pursuit.
In terms of Hingley's position regarding Mancetter, he presented at the Mancetter conference and was a "neutral". In his "In Or Time" performance that started this whole thread I thought, he did lean towards "West Midlands" which implied Mancetter to me, at Warwick he was neutral. I cannot find any reference to him advancing any position in recent years, and the Nat Geo thing he did a couple of years ago was also neutral-ish (from memory). I don't think he can be used as a "patsy" for any "down south" theory unless there is a more specific more recent quote.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00r7lr9 at about 22:00 minutes in.
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"It was whilst I was revisiting some of the posts that are here and an explanation of John .....'s (... surname redacted 'cos I don't want any more hate mail from Atherstone) regarding the difficulty of understanding the translation of “faucibus” as in plurals and explanation of defile/s and gullet that I ran the Latin through a computerised translator and instead of a defile the translation mentions a narrow isthmus as an access to the site as opposed to the standard translation of a defile" - Deryk
Can you remind me where I was dealing with this? I must stress I am no Latin scholar and go to great lengths to defer to others. I struggle with a valley and a half at Church Stowe but generally accept the possibility of there being more than one for the narrative, but my interpretation of the primary valley at CS remains unchanged for the purpose of this pursuit.
In terms of Hingley's position regarding Mancetter, he presented at the Mancetter conference and was a "neutral". In his "In Or Time" performance that started this whole thread I thought, he did lean towards "West Midlands" which implied Mancetter to me, at Warwick he was neutral. I cannot find any reference to him advancing any position in recent years, and the Nat Geo thing he did a couple of years ago was also neutral-ish (from memory). I don't think he can be used as a "patsy" for any "down south" theory unless there is a more specific more recent quote.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00r7lr9 at about 22:00 minutes in.
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