10-21-2021, 01:02 PM
(10-21-2021, 10:36 AM)Nathan Ross Wrote:(10-21-2021, 06:24 AM)Crispianus Wrote: Dates the harvesting season seems to be early August and were on the stalk... but they may have been from the previous year?
Yes, I would guess the dates were preserved and imported from (?) the Mediterranean.
The grapes might be a different matter - presumably they were fresh. I believe grapes were cultivated in Britain at some point, but perhaps not this early. Would they have been imported from Gaul or the Rhineland, perhaps? In which case it must have been during or after the grape harvest, which begins in August in some places I think and goes on through the autumn.
Well September seems to be a favorite which would also fit with the dates... if that is the case then the revolt happened very late, but then if the intention was to take back tribal land and punish the romans by raising colchester to the ground, leaving little time for the roman military to respond before winter firmly got a foot in the door, then september or even a bit later would work.
Maybe the puny force that was sent to police colchester only encouraged them...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
