09-23-2018, 04:57 PM
(09-22-2018, 02:23 PM)Renatus Wrote: 'Boudica's Last Stand' is better than most
I find the idea of a 'Last Stand' a bit melodramatic and Victorian!
Most German scholars, I think, refer to the so-called 'Battle of the Teutoburg Forest' as the Varusschlacht (Varus Battle). Something similar might be worthwhile with this one, although it doesn't work quite so well in English - 'the Boudica Battle', or 'Boudica's Last Battle' could be ok, perhaps?
(Although I've just noticed that German wikipedia calls it Die Schlacht an der Watling Street - we can't win!)
(09-23-2018, 09:09 AM)kavan Wrote: I was wondering how the Romans disposed of their dead after a large battle at this time.
Mass cremation. Romans didn't bury their dead until the 2nd century, and burning would be the best way of disposing of heaps of bodies anyway.
I recall there was a discussion about battlefield remains (or 'cremains') somewhere earlier on this thread. The site suggested at Clifton-upon-Dunsmore also featured some sort of ash-filled mounds, or the possibility of them, I think.
Nathan Ross