10-27-2019, 09:08 PM
(10-27-2019, 08:43 PM)John1 Wrote: academia bottling naming a battle site again, and implying 60 AD again.....
Weirdly enough, the article's by Richard Hingley, a proper academic and co-author of one of the better books on the revolt (Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen).
The date thing he explains by citing a recently discovered writing tablet, but since (as we've discussed before) the tablet in question dates to October AD62 I really don't see how this can be so. Does he really think that a major city and transport hub would still be in ruins an entire year after the suppression of the revolt? A city built of wood, at that...
He also implies that St Albans was completely destroyed by 'Boudica’s devastating attack' - which is contradicted in his own book - and claims there are 'thick layers of burning dating to A.D. 60', which there are not.
As for 'Boudica’s forces... may have included female warriors', I have nothing to say!
Altogether a very misleading article, which (unsurprisingly) finds it 'likely that the clash took place in the Midlands of modern-day England', for no reason at all.
Nathan Ross