11-13-2015, 12:14 PM
Ah, this debate has a sort of nostalgic familiarity to it now - like the colour of autumn leaves, or the John Lewis Christmas advert...
Maybe. No doubt ancient Britain was covered with 'landscapes of significance'. But why should that help us identify the site of the battle? Paulinus chose the site, for tactical reasons, not Boudica for reasons of native British significance.
Tribal differences and divisions are interesting though. At the risk of once more bringing up things outside the boundaries of the topic, I was reading back through Tacitus's brief account of the 47 Iceni revolt - it seems that several neighouring tribes joined the Romans in fighting the rebellion... Maybe the ones to the west (in the Midlands)?
(11-13-2015, 11:51 AM)John1 Wrote: Maybe this area had some tribal significance as a meeting point? maybe it is a wider landscape of significance as a rallying point?
Maybe. No doubt ancient Britain was covered with 'landscapes of significance'. But why should that help us identify the site of the battle? Paulinus chose the site, for tactical reasons, not Boudica for reasons of native British significance.
Tribal differences and divisions are interesting though. At the risk of once more bringing up things outside the boundaries of the topic, I was reading back through Tacitus's brief account of the 47 Iceni revolt - it seems that several neighouring tribes joined the Romans in fighting the rebellion... Maybe the ones to the west (in the Midlands)?
Nathan Ross