02-17-2011, 05:29 AM
Quote:The general area still seems quite reasonable though - but you'd have to find somewhere over on the eastern slope of the hill where it overlooks Watling Street. Plenty of defiles and similar features there...
There was an article in British Archaeology recently (I can't lay my hands on it as my entire house is piles of books at the moment) where somebody had analysed (with a computer, natch) all the possible defiles meeting the (probably intentionally) vague description offered by Tacitus. There were literally hundreds of them, including your and my favoured options (and, of course, the increasingly uninspired-looking Mancetter), as well as some to the west (Virginia Water station was always favoured by Nick Fuentes, I seem to remember; not so daft if a retreat to the west is envisaged, since it is just above the Thames floodplain, although Paullinus would have been well advised to avoid South West Trains for said purpose).
This new forum software really badly (and I mean badly!) needs a preview button for numpties like me :-(
Mike Bishop