Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

Firstly this is an excellent summation and one that I wholeheartedly support. 

Thank you, Deryk.  That's kind of you.

I have been promising myself for years that I would suss out the suggested sites in the Tring area but something has always intervened.  I will add Pitstone to the itinerary.  However, I had better get on with it before I become too old and decrepit to do it.

I am not sure about the idea of Suetonius wanting to trap the rebels.  Roman commanders were enjoined to leave the enemy a 'golden bridge' by which to flee the battlefield, as a trapped enemy has little alternative but to turn and fight.  The wagons no doubt impeded their escape, contributed to, as Nathan has suggested, by the fighters trying to get to their families and save them, impeding each other further in the process.  However, this was not entrapment, simply that it made it more difficult for them to get away rapidly and, consequently, exposed them to being cut down by the pursuing Romans.