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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
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Quote:The recent British Archaeology report was by Steve Kaye, he concludes pointing at Silchester... Steve's main write up can be found here;

http://www.bandaarcgeophysics.co.uk/Boud...alysis.pdf

Very interesting - I didn't know of the evidence for destruction at Silchester. Mind you, as the article points out, a 25-year margin allows for a lot of other possibilities... His list of battle sites seems exhaustive, but omits some favourites - no Church Stowe or Paulerspury (or Dunstable!) - and includes some bizarre choices. Quite what Boudica would be doing way down in Dorset is beyond me... Kaye does, quite concisely, demolish the Websterian idea of the 'cavalry dash', though.

Kaye is largely following Nicholas Fuentes' 1983 argument for a western route of retreat from London by Paulinus - Fuentes cites destruction evidence at Staines and other places, and suggests Virginia Water station (as Mike Bishop pointed out above!), as the battle site. His paper is here:

Fuentes - Boudica Re-Visited

A counterblast from the redoubtable Graham Webster reiterates the case for Mancetter, and for Paulinus' 'cavalry reconnaissance' (upon which the identification largely rests, it seems):

Webster - A Comment

I'd say the balance of probability is with Fuentes here.

Strangely, however, Fuentes claims in his article that the next town north of St Albans is Towcester. It's not, of course - it's Dunstable! Which is on a spur of the Chilterns, in an area apparently thickly wooded in antiquity (or, at least, in medieval times...).

Meanwhile, here's Martin Marix Evans' 2001 defence of Paulerspury as a site (and against Church Stowe and Mancetter):

Marix Evans - Boudica's Last Battle

After a while, this sort of speculation becomes way too addictive... :grin:

- Nathan
Nathan Ross
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 02-19-2011, 07:10 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
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