08-07-2012, 05:18 PM
Hi Nathan
Sadly we can't say either way although it would be perfectly feasible to have a station here and Colt Hoare was certainly very positive that Upper Cunetio was the original station for the Roman road.
This is obviously an important crossroads and strategic site even for the previous Brythonic owners and in my opinion would have housed a small fort / station.
So I am afraid we will have to differ - there is no reason to think that there was not a station here in Boudica's time.
Even if there was no station here that does not detract from the position which was occupied by the iron age entrenchments and where the Romans could have occupied and made their own.
Regarding Avebury, I think that Nathan has a point but also I don't think that you can take the Druidic influence out of the equation altogether and I feel that the Iceni would have been fully aware of other tribes and geography.
Sadly we can't say either way although it would be perfectly feasible to have a station here and Colt Hoare was certainly very positive that Upper Cunetio was the original station for the Roman road.
This is obviously an important crossroads and strategic site even for the previous Brythonic owners and in my opinion would have housed a small fort / station.
So I am afraid we will have to differ - there is no reason to think that there was not a station here in Boudica's time.
Even if there was no station here that does not detract from the position which was occupied by the iron age entrenchments and where the Romans could have occupied and made their own.
Regarding Avebury, I think that Nathan has a point but also I don't think that you can take the Druidic influence out of the equation altogether and I feel that the Iceni would have been fully aware of other tribes and geography.
Deryk