11-05-2012, 06:08 PM
Quote:Shall we settle that the Western Theory is a blind alley? :twisted:
I don't think so. Although I still prefer the north route, the west has a lot to be said for it. I believe that a consideration of the strategic shape of the campaign is possibly more useful than our attempts to accurately identify the site, which rely on a lot of variables (not least Tacitus's powers of description!).
Virginia Water is still very plausible, I think. Perhaps not the exact site suggested by Fuentes, but nearby - there's high ground, valleys, and it's close to London on the Roman road. The topography has been rather altered by development and the construction of an artifical lake, unfortunately!
It would perhaps be my second choice, after Dunstable, which continues to provide the best match for site topography and strategic plausibility...
Nathan Ross