Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

Richard Hingley's Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen remains the best study of the revolt I've yet read. Hingley does opt in a kind of luke-warm way for Mancetter, but his book covers the background to the events very thoroughly.

I have just got round to reading this (the first part anyway) and I'm not sure that he opts for Mancetter in even a luke-warm way.  He outlines its credentials, such as they are, and goes on:

'The idea of Mancetter as the site of Boudica's final stand is based upon little more than several layers of supposition . . . there is no conclusive evidence to indicate that this was the site of the battle.  In fact, the suggestion for the battle site in the midlands is based on a number of assumptions . . . It is quite possible that Suetonius Paulinus's army was in fact in southern Britain in the vicinity of London and Verulamium when the battle took place, indicating a more southerly location for the site.'

He later says:

'The location of Boudica's final defeat may eventually be found by searching for relevant archaeological remains at likely sites across the south of Britain.'