12-14-2017, 12:13 PM
(12-14-2017, 08:02 AM)MonsGraupius Wrote: Your time scale looks a bit like this
I would urge you to look at the sources again.
While marching Romans and British carts have certain average and maximum probable speeds etc, the timescale for the revolt is determined by the need to fit a number of events within the period between late spring and autumn.
Allowing for travel between known points, the movement of messages to and from Rome and reinforcements from the Rhine, and Turpilianus replacing Paulinus as governor in late 61 or 62, that does not leave much time for wandering about the landscape.
You say you don't know how you've come up with a longer timescale - fine, you can think what you like! - but perhaps you could explain why you think the shorter one is improbable?
Nathan Ross