08-11-2019, 10:09 PM
(08-11-2019, 09:16 PM)John1 Wrote: an entirely unreasonable and offensive statement on the thread
You seem to have your offence bar set very low today! But I wasn't even referring specifically to your ideas - I just meant that Paulinus would have had to use the ground available wherever he happened to be - he was 'compelled, contrary to his judgment' to fight the battle (Dio), so he didn't have loads of time to select his perfect spot.
(08-11-2019, 09:16 PM)John1 Wrote: it's garrison alerted as it had been prepared in part as a central depot in the preceding years.
Both garrison and 'depot' are your own hypotheses though...
(08-11-2019, 09:16 PM)John1 Wrote: Find some points that Tring outguns CS on, I haven't found any yet but then again I'm not looking.
Isn't this what we have been discussing here for over nine years now?
(08-11-2019, 09:16 PM)John1 Wrote: is hawthorn such a challenge
I was thinking more of this sort of thing. Granted, I have not attempted to forge through it while outrunning groundsmen and gamekeepers...
(pic from Streetview, about 800 yards from New Ground)
(08-11-2019, 09:16 PM)John1 Wrote: your should apply a loose version of the Kaye test, is there a credible source of water? there is at CS with the ironstone spring line.
New Ground appeared very high on Steve Kaye's list of sites, as did Tring Station I think.
If we are including springs then the north-western escarpment of the Chilterns has dozens of them. There are at least three around Dunstable.
Nathan Ross