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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Quote:I was referring to the AD60 / AD61 turn of events and at that time according to the archeology there was a form of Roman Buildings in "Upper Cunetio"... (Please see attached Diagram by the archeologist Richard Colt Hoare from around 1800)
Those 18th/19th century guys certainly made attractive maps! Subsequent, and more modern, investigations around 'Upper Cunetio' are summarised here:

Forest Hill Farm Roman Site

The general view seems to be that it was 'clearly the site of a substantial Roman building though not necessarily a villa' - but no idea of date. I'd be surprised if it was as early as middle first century, although the earthwork is clearly (?) much earlier. Anyway, we can't assume that either the Roman site here or the town on the lower ground would have been there at the time of Boudica.

Quote:wasn't there a ref somewhere to Palinus bringing the Brits to battle by "dispoiling their holy places"
No, I don't think so. The idea was suggested, I think, to try and justify some other proposed site (Arbury Banks?), with the vague idea that after destroying the Druidic groves on Mona Paulinus might have decided to do similar elsewhere. I don't think it's likely - aside from Mona, we have little evidence for Romans deliberately destroying holy sites, and much evidence for their adoption of native British religious places (Bath springs to mind). They wouldn't have wanted to tempt the wrath of the genius loci, I suspect. Plus they had too much else to do at the time!

I don't think there's any evidence for Avebury or other neolithic sites still being in use in the iron age anyway. Even if the local people had some veneration for the spot, it's unlikely that its fame would have spread as far as Icenia.
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 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
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 08-07-2012, 03:19 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
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM

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