"It's a good-looking site, undoubtably. It's just in the wrong part of the country. Move it thirty miles south-east and maybe..." -
Well I read it as the Romans preparing a secure position and inviting the Brits on... You seem to read it as advancing to contact with a random parade.
Any further south and the Nene and Ouse back doors swing wide open.
If the Iceni federation included chunks of the Catuvellani then Church Stowe is right at the North West corner of the 3 tribe territory. All sounds perfect to me and that extra 30 miles south only delivers Paulinus a loss of preparation time, a less adventitious battlefield terrain and an open back door. Easily worth the extra 30 mile tab up from London for his cavalry dash......... having arrived safely from Mona by boat
Well I read it as the Romans preparing a secure position and inviting the Brits on... You seem to read it as advancing to contact with a random parade.
Any further south and the Nene and Ouse back doors swing wide open.
If the Iceni federation included chunks of the Catuvellani then Church Stowe is right at the North West corner of the 3 tribe territory. All sounds perfect to me and that extra 30 miles south only delivers Paulinus a loss of preparation time, a less adventitious battlefield terrain and an open back door. Easily worth the extra 30 mile tab up from London for his cavalry dash......... having arrived safely from Mona by boat