03-09-2015, 02:50 PM
The Akeman Street theory still interests me. It implies many of the same strategic decisions and manoeuvring that would bring a Roman force to Church Stowe. However the late swerve West into a long section with little or no apparently suitable topography still doesn't seem like a winner. It's a long old Road Akeman Street and by the time a Roman got to Alchester he'd be pretty much as far away as Church Stowe, without the added benefit of contact with the new Northern garrisons or High Cross which would therefore be exposed. How far along Akeman are you thinking?
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Glad to hear we'll be dialling back the sneering, this was probably the high sneer point of the thread for me; "What has the Wash got to do with any of this? ..... They could not have got much further from the Wash, if they had tried."
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Glad to hear we'll be dialling back the sneering, this was probably the high sneer point of the thread for me; "What has the Wash got to do with any of this? ..... They could not have got much further from the Wash, if they had tried."