05-24-2016, 09:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-24-2016, 11:15 PM by Marieta Sandalo.)
Hello from Brazil! I have enjoyed tremendously reading all of your posts- they are EXACTLY the sort of discussion I was looking forward to find online (and, hopefully in Academia) and on reading them I became a fan of the whole group.
Since everyone seems to have gone AWOL, I just pictured you all on your way to Tring with shovels and spades - a girl can dream.
I am just a curious reader and an Archaeology fan, so I'm afraid I'll keep on being just a reader after registering, but I'd like to thank and congratulate you on the forum - delightful and I have to confess- addictive. (hoping I don't sound too "deranged-fan-familiar" hey- I'm latin!)
A few thoughts: I believe one of the data that could be factored in with terrain/distance/hydrology would be major and minor archaeological finds from around AD 61 -if not from digs, from occasional finds- who knows whether they could add to the picture?
Talking about picture, THIS Tollense River http://bit.ly/22JIFe8 image from an Iron Age battle in Germany got my imagination running.
Though the skeletons seem to have been preserved by the moist/anaerobic conditions (probably not the case for Boudica's last stand) it brought back mental images I had- of the casualty-filled battlefield and the human/animal remains becoming part of the soil - would the place soon become "taboo", "cursed"? A pilgrimage site? Forgotten?
I wonder if (and for how long) the decomposition process would cause the presence of will-'o-the-wisp/ignus fatuus to be seen on the field, and how it would be interpreted then. (then again -thanks Google! -it seems it is not caused by methane photon emissions after all... anyone?) Too bad, I can almost SEE it, can you, the field alight with ghostly/eery "flames"...
I don't have a location to propose, though I remember laughing to myself when I spotted the Cotswolds Upper and Lower Slaughter on a map. Does anyone need better than that? Neon arrow required? (yes, I DID read the etymology)
Now- how amazing it was, Nathan Ross offering half a cow and Cow Roast popping ahead!
I think you all do wonderful reasoning, congrats, Armchair Generals! I love Steve Kaye's papers but I am not opposed to choosing a site and championing it - I find it very exciting -as long as we are open to reasoning and new data- I believe it can be fruitful- after all, this forum is a brainstorming exercise, right?
best regards!
Since everyone seems to have gone AWOL, I just pictured you all on your way to Tring with shovels and spades - a girl can dream.
I am just a curious reader and an Archaeology fan, so I'm afraid I'll keep on being just a reader after registering, but I'd like to thank and congratulate you on the forum - delightful and I have to confess- addictive. (hoping I don't sound too "deranged-fan-familiar" hey- I'm latin!)
A few thoughts: I believe one of the data that could be factored in with terrain/distance/hydrology would be major and minor archaeological finds from around AD 61 -if not from digs, from occasional finds- who knows whether they could add to the picture?
Talking about picture, THIS Tollense River http://bit.ly/22JIFe8 image from an Iron Age battle in Germany got my imagination running.
Though the skeletons seem to have been preserved by the moist/anaerobic conditions (probably not the case for Boudica's last stand) it brought back mental images I had- of the casualty-filled battlefield and the human/animal remains becoming part of the soil - would the place soon become "taboo", "cursed"? A pilgrimage site? Forgotten?
I wonder if (and for how long) the decomposition process would cause the presence of will-'o-the-wisp/ignus fatuus to be seen on the field, and how it would be interpreted then. (then again -thanks Google! -it seems it is not caused by methane photon emissions after all... anyone?) Too bad, I can almost SEE it, can you, the field alight with ghostly/eery "flames"...
I don't have a location to propose, though I remember laughing to myself when I spotted the Cotswolds Upper and Lower Slaughter on a map. Does anyone need better than that? Neon arrow required? (yes, I DID read the etymology)
Now- how amazing it was, Nathan Ross offering half a cow and Cow Roast popping ahead!
I think you all do wonderful reasoning, congrats, Armchair Generals! I love Steve Kaye's papers but I am not opposed to choosing a site and championing it - I find it very exciting -as long as we are open to reasoning and new data- I believe it can be fruitful- after all, this forum is a brainstorming exercise, right?
best regards!