06-19-2016, 06:23 PM
(06-19-2016, 05:52 PM)John1 Wrote: where did you (Nathan) get the "half of a row of buildings / wooden portico burned but the other half left standing"
I thought it was in Hingley's Iron Age Warrior Queen, but while he gives a plan and projection of a row of workshops and porticos, he doesn't suggest (as I thought) that they'd been burned. He does mention a bronze statue possibly being destroyed - although that may have been post-damnatio Nero!
I may have been remembering Bedoyere's Buildings of Roman Britain, which I think logged the burning evidence from Verulamium - I don't have his book any more, but I recall there was destruction in certain insula and not in others, indicating a fairly cursory (or maybe targeted) sort of sacking!
Most sources mention the rather limited destruction evidence. Aldhouse-Green's Boudica Britannia notes that 15 years elapsed between one workshop being burned and its subsequent rebuilding, which might suggest that some places took quite a while to recover!
Nathan Ross