Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Owein Walker]

Without bodies, it cannot be the battlefield.

That means we will have to look elsewhere for the Battles of Hastings, Bannockburn and Bosworth, not to mention Cannae and Pharsalus, as no bodies have been found at any of those sites!

Finding bones or other remains at pre-modern battle sites is extremely rare. Rarer still to find any from an age which practised widespread cremation.

Another one for the general archive, the Woman not the battlefield:

https://podfollow.com/the-ancients/episo...2a45c/view

Yeah, I had a listen to that a while back. Bit wonky on the chronology, I thought. Don't they have Boudica burning London before Suetonius arrived, or something?

You are welcome to look for other battlefields,and bodies,I'm only concerned with this one.

I edited this and added.

Do you think I should not look for cremated bodies and other evidence, then just add the site to the long list of "potential" sites that exist already ?

I'm not here to add to the list,im really not,its already long enough.

Then Added more...

I'm going to explain,when you are requested to specify the boundary of a site that is so large it becomes a daunting job.I'm sure you have a better idea of how to do it than I did,and to be honest, the request seemed futile .Its impossible to know where the battle actually finished,did units pursue the warriors back down Watling Street or further along the valley?  

However, Tacitus tells us about the battle and mentions two things ,the initial contact and the slaughter near the wagons, that could help locate bodies and debris. It so happens these are the same places where evidence of something strange occurs on my site,patches where the soil changes.
I could pull up some Iron Age artefacts, but there are Iron Age sites nearby,so that's not conclusive. I could dig across my double trenches ,but that would only show I have some trenches,that doesn't prove I have a battlefield.

Likewise, I have a feature with a floor plan similar to' Arthur O on',means nothing on its own.

My decision is to find the evidence to end this search and that requires bodies,burnt,partially burnt or intact, and mentioning what other sites have produced ,it's important to realize disarticulated bones from 130 bodies were discovered on a neolithic site not too far away,3,000 BC..... 
This is my decision and if other sites had chosen to do this then we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now !!

Is that a shot at a lot of people,historians,authors and archaeologists. I will let you decide. What seems to have happened is there's been a trend of believing something just because it sounds feasible,without the evidence to support it.
If I'm told coffee is good for me, I will support it.
It's easier to agree,saves me researching the facts and falling out with other people .

Yes bodies for me, but you do it your own way ,it's your choice not mine