Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Hanny]

In Britain the campaign season started in the summer (Tacitus, Agricola 20) - in Gaul it only began in July (Ammianus 17.8).

As Paulinus had completed his operations on Anglesey by the time he heard of the revolt, it must have begun in late summer. The planting season missed by the Iceni, therefore, would be the main autumn one, in October. They would have completed their harvest, in August, before beginning the revolt.


In the UK on the summer solstice (June 21st) there are 16 hours, 41 minutes and 5 seconds of daylight; sunrise is at 04.42, sunset at 21.23.

However, the battle almost certainly happened in the autumn.

Roman campaign season along with all its religious festivals set at specific times had a set month to start and ends in October, just because this campaign set out late would not change that.

Pliny tells us emmer wheat, the most likely cereal crop of the Iceni, has to have 4 months of fallow after harvest in autumn, it takes 8 to months to grow and is single crop a year Cerial so this is one reason why I think it may be a 2 year event as you can’t get the crops and campaign to align in a single year, nor do I see an easy way to establish a timeline for a single campaign period.The next wheat crop is spelt, and could be sown in spring for a summer crop, ie a deliberate change to its natural cycle to avoid pests, and Buster farm project has show that spelt produces lower crop yields than emmer when sown in spring.

Throughout history campaigns start when crops are milk ripe so you can take them for use.

Romans used a 12 hour daylight and 12 hour nightime water clock, so a 3 hour battle to a Roman was not always the same as modern 3 hour battle, so just using modern sunrise to sunset does not yield the same hours a Roman worked.

Do you mean Wroxeter, and Mona? Iona is in the Hebrides...

Mona, predictive texting or to many beers by the ?‍♀️