02-28-2017, 03:26 PM
(02-28-2017, 02:14 PM)John1 Wrote: "'there's nothing there of consequence to attack." - Boudicca 61AD
"... except this Roman army blocking our route home, which will attack us from the rear if we try to bypass them..."
(02-28-2017, 02:14 PM)John1 Wrote: a continued tedious wait for someone to put a spade (or probe) in the ground......
Yes indeed. Or perhaps the long-lost Memoirs of Suetonius Paulinus, unearthed from the library at Herculaneum?... "Informed by our scouts of the approach of the barbarians, I elected to take up a position ten miles from Verulamium, where the road passes between hills..."
Nathan Ross