Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

putting Mancetter and Martyn Taggs Upper Arncott on point for the Battlefield location

Are they intending that the two presenters sort of battle it out, do you think, or are the audience just supposed to decide for themselves between equal possibilities?

Meanwhile, I was thinking more about Simon Elliot's Markyate suggestion. Strangely, far from being a 'leading candidate site', it doesn't seem to have been mentioned at all, by anybody, except the author!

It's in a general area that I've looked at before, up the valley between Flamstead and Kensworth. Although nothing seems to distinguish the site in particular - it's just a fairly shallow valley, no strong defile, no woods, no plain. And the River Ver would have been more prominent before the depletion of the Thames basin, and would have run right through it (A):

   

The site just southeast of Dunstable suggested my both Barry Horne and me (B) seems far preferable. I can only think that the author moved down the valley to get closer to a source of water (River Ver) - although the area of modern Dunstable contains several Iron Age wells and there are springs all along the northwest slopes of the Chilterns, so this would not be necessary.