09-08-2013, 02:51 PM
I do not know if the ancients had a different mindset to us. Taking their 'homesickness' and need for future survival into account the followingseems to apply.
Even on Watling Street the Iceni are around 100 miles from home and unfamiliar with the terrain. Theirs is predominantly fens and flat and they are in ?inhospitable Catuvellaunian territory. The Romans' knowledge of the local terrain must havebeen far greater. They probably have poor footwear and armour unfit for purpose. How did they get this far?
At most, they only have four routes home. The quickest and arguable most perilous, on Roman Roads.
To Caistor, Via Longthorpe. Who would want to go there?? Alternatively via Godmanchester.
Nene and Great Ouse.
Icknield Way.
St. Albans or London to Colchester.
All of this leads me to the same conclusion I have already drawn (with appreciated amendments)
Even on Watling Street the Iceni are around 100 miles from home and unfamiliar with the terrain. Theirs is predominantly fens and flat and they are in ?inhospitable Catuvellaunian territory. The Romans' knowledge of the local terrain must havebeen far greater. They probably have poor footwear and armour unfit for purpose. How did they get this far?
At most, they only have four routes home. The quickest and arguable most perilous, on Roman Roads.
To Caistor, Via Longthorpe. Who would want to go there?? Alternatively via Godmanchester.
Nene and Great Ouse.
Icknield Way.
St. Albans or London to Colchester.
All of this leads me to the same conclusion I have already drawn (with appreciated amendments)
Davidus