Christmas Treat time.
Prof. Will Bowden (Nottingham Uni and Venta Icenorum) is being put in the ring by the Battlefields Trust, can't wait......
POST MATCH REPORT !!!!!
Prof Bowden tells us we're entirely wasting our time....
"The descriptions of the battle are almost entirely derived from a highly standardised set of literary devices that would have recognition for their readers. It is doubtful any factual information can be derived from the battle descriptions."
"There is no way to build a research programme to find the battlefield. if it is to be found it will be through serendipitous finds by metal detectorists"
"The hunt will be like Richard III, it would never get research Council money"
(didn't mention the BFT doing surveys of Dunstable or Cuttle Mill, or all the research money that has gone into Mancetter.)
Battlefields shown in diagram were Mancetter, Heydon (William Foot) and Ogbourne (Steve Kaye) Seemed to be a scan from British Archaeology 165 March 2019
Another archaeologist sceptic who will fall to the RAT thread of doom sooner of later. He is keen to find Boudiccas grave to get on Digging for Britain though.....
Prof. Will Bowden (Nottingham Uni and Venta Icenorum) is being put in the ring by the Battlefields Trust, can't wait......
POST MATCH REPORT !!!!!
Prof Bowden tells us we're entirely wasting our time....
"The descriptions of the battle are almost entirely derived from a highly standardised set of literary devices that would have recognition for their readers. It is doubtful any factual information can be derived from the battle descriptions."
"There is no way to build a research programme to find the battlefield. if it is to be found it will be through serendipitous finds by metal detectorists"
"The hunt will be like Richard III, it would never get research Council money"
(didn't mention the BFT doing surveys of Dunstable or Cuttle Mill, or all the research money that has gone into Mancetter.)
Battlefields shown in diagram were Mancetter, Heydon (William Foot) and Ogbourne (Steve Kaye) Seemed to be a scan from British Archaeology 165 March 2019
Another archaeologist sceptic who will fall to the RAT thread of doom sooner of later. He is keen to find Boudiccas grave to get on Digging for Britain though.....
