Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[David Scothorn]

Half way between Bicester and St Albans is Tring

Yes, it does seem to be a likely place for a fort or road station. But perhaps in later decades, once the road system had become more established?

And similarly for Asthall ( half way, Bicester to Cirencester)
http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1955/cook.pdf
Conclusion:- '' It would appear, in fact, that Akeman Street was in use soon after the mid-first century...........''
The earliest coin dated AD72

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Just found this re. Alchester (Bicester)

https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-ar...r-fortress

........Our findings suggest that pacification of southern Britain required greater military efforts than previously recognised. The combined size of the main fortress, probably covering much of the area of the later town, and a large annexe amounts to 14-15ha, and there is evidence for dense multi-phase military occupation in the mid-first century from both. Anti-personnel devices, in the form of sharpened stakes at the approaches to a timber gate, suggest that the invasion force was prepared for potential rebellion................