I think that particular "conclusion" was developed without knowledge of the presence of a possible fort in the same field. As I read it they saw the spread as an action distribution. Possibly the spread is a ploughed out cache from the putative fort or even a practice range. It will be interesting to see how the speaker deals with this in his presentation/questions now he is aware of the crop marks. I have heard the total number of shot from that field could be many hundreds or thousands over the years. I guess we'll have to attend the talk to find out......
Although the nascent Roman settlement, which had been a seat of the Catuvellauni, was by then a
municipium, it too appears to have been undefended. This apparent state of vulnerability is
possibly explained by the suggestion that the inhabitants of early Verulamium had been
relatively pro-Roman for some time and saw no need for defensive engineering. Although the
township lay a few hundred metres to the east of the Windridge Farm area, and it is not
inconceivable there was a show of resistance against the insurgents, it is unlikely that sufficient
numbers of appropriately trained slingers could have been mustered to contribute to a major
scatter of bullets of this nature to the west of the settlement outskirts.
JOHN REID, REGINE MÜLLER and SABINE KLEIN - Britannia 53 (2022), 323–346
The Boudiccan case is that the site might have been that of a "show of resistance" by the residents of Verulamium so that ignores any fortification (spotted 2017 but observed/predicted as a potential by Steve Greep in his Windridge paper back in 1987). I only started looking at Windridge because Steve Kaye pointed me at it.... so if there is a Fort (spoiler.... there is) it's discovery is entirely down to the conversations and connections we've been making on here.... chalk that Fort up to RAT.... be it down to Caesar, Claudius or Nero.... I'm happy with any of these outcomes, excited to see it get some attention and dating.... (as long as i selfishly get some credit on the HER
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Although the nascent Roman settlement, which had been a seat of the Catuvellauni, was by then a
municipium, it too appears to have been undefended. This apparent state of vulnerability is
possibly explained by the suggestion that the inhabitants of early Verulamium had been
relatively pro-Roman for some time and saw no need for defensive engineering. Although the
township lay a few hundred metres to the east of the Windridge Farm area, and it is not
inconceivable there was a show of resistance against the insurgents, it is unlikely that sufficient
numbers of appropriately trained slingers could have been mustered to contribute to a major
scatter of bullets of this nature to the west of the settlement outskirts.
JOHN REID, REGINE MÜLLER and SABINE KLEIN - Britannia 53 (2022), 323–346
The Boudiccan case is that the site might have been that of a "show of resistance" by the residents of Verulamium so that ignores any fortification (spotted 2017 but observed/predicted as a potential by Steve Greep in his Windridge paper back in 1987). I only started looking at Windridge because Steve Kaye pointed me at it.... so if there is a Fort (spoiler.... there is) it's discovery is entirely down to the conversations and connections we've been making on here.... chalk that Fort up to RAT.... be it down to Caesar, Claudius or Nero.... I'm happy with any of these outcomes, excited to see it get some attention and dating.... (as long as i selfishly get some credit on the HER
)653,679
