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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
The waggons might limit the depth of the battle field but actually the depth of the "horde" is probably critical.



This has set me thinking, the waggon park must have been fairly densely parked up to impede the hordes flight and was being used as a viewing platform. This implies there was;
a) time to park the wagons as a grandstand
b) the wagon park was somehow constrained on the flanks, (possibly by terrain or water courses)
c) the point of predicted impact must have been fairly obvious and at a set range, I suspect it would have to have been within about 400m of the grandstand for it have provided a worthwhile vantage point.

So maybe any test of a site needs to focus on where the wagon park could plausibly be, constrained point within good visual range of the action.

With CS I’m speculating that the Waggon Park was in the base of the valley between Stowe Wood and Weedon Hill. This gives a topographic constraint to the wagon park north and south, and it is in the 400m –ish range. The best viewing site is however slightly south on the west facing flank of the spur on which Stowe Wood is situated. On site it is a fantastic grandstand for the bowl in front Castle Dykes.

So finding a plausibly constrained wagon park location, on the obvious line of retreat may actually prove to be one of the most important diagnostic tools in the hunt. Just a thought, I’d like to hear yours, and your nominations for the wagon park on the respective candidate sites.

I think the battle front issue is probably quite malleable, I ended up making the assumption that it was somewhere between 500m and 1km. It just didn’t seem appropriate to be more precise, we’re not dealing with lab conditions, a terrain that was imperfect and a set of troop numbers we cannot absolutely pin down which were then split into 3 groups with cavalry on the wings.
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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 John1 - 09-14-2012, 02:42 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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