Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

I think we're stuck without finds on any of these sites.

Have you forgotten all those Roman military finds at Newground?

re.flankable: high chalk ridges on either side, woods behind (albeit not your tangled willow scrub!) = about the best battlefield topography in southeast England.

it's unclear whether those lines are defending an approach from the north or south

From the south-east. St Albans direction. The blue circles represent the Britons...

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Meanwhile, thinking about topography, I was having another look at one of the sites that Deryk suggested a few years ago - the valley southeast of Ivinghoe Beacon.

This would address an advance by the Britons up the Gade Valley: the 'middle route' between Watling Street and Akeman Street (my thinking is that, had the Britons chosen this route, Suetonius could have redeployed his troops to meet them in good time).

Still quite 'flankable', especially over the high ground towards Steps Hill, although a Roman cavalry force placed up there would deter that, I would think, and could then contribute to the battle by sweeping down the slopes into the enemy flank.

Just an idea, anyway.