03-09-2015, 02:15 PM
Deryk star performance by bringing Stonea Camp to bear on this, you get a CS campaign medal.
If Stonea Camp and it's road network were known, which we are pretty certain they are, then one could reasonably assume that once the Romans passed it's exit from the Wash around Peterborough, they could not be sure the enemy was not to their rear..... Therefore why would the main body the Roman column proceed further south? So CS again has a good rationale, the route from Peterborough to Watling Street would take the Iceni striaght up the Nene Valley to meet Watling Street at ....Church Stowe. Of course on the way they would have to pass an under garrisoned Longthorpe, a post they by-passed.
It is a distance of 90km, easy navigation, easy water supply even barge-able for some.
[attachment=11955]StoneaNene.jpg[/attachment]
If Stonea Camp and it's road network were known, which we are pretty certain they are, then one could reasonably assume that once the Romans passed it's exit from the Wash around Peterborough, they could not be sure the enemy was not to their rear..... Therefore why would the main body the Roman column proceed further south? So CS again has a good rationale, the route from Peterborough to Watling Street would take the Iceni striaght up the Nene Valley to meet Watling Street at ....Church Stowe. Of course on the way they would have to pass an under garrisoned Longthorpe, a post they by-passed.
It is a distance of 90km, easy navigation, easy water supply even barge-able for some.
[attachment=11955]StoneaNene.jpg[/attachment]