02-06-2018, 01:30 PM
(02-06-2018, 12:33 PM)Renatus Wrote: if the Lunt was a training establishment, it too is likely to have been in a friendly area.
That seems likely. But I've never been convinced by the theory that the gyrus was for training captured Iceni horses - it's not all that large, and why would the Iceni have more horses that needed training than the Roman cavalry? It seems to be another of Webster's ideas - Richard Hingley calls it 'improbable'.
There are, though, quite a few fortifications around the Midlands that seem to have been occupied for a short period around mid-century. Could be post-Boudica, or perhaps connected with the expansion of Roman military control after the conquest period, maybe. John's point about the strategic importance of the Nene valley could be significant in a wider sense.
But all the direct evidence for the active period of the AD61 revolt is in East Anglia or south of the Chilterns.
Nathan Ross