Points to note on Windridge:
1, I have heard (source not to be revealed here) that the site has probably yielded thousands of glandes over decades of nighthawking, we will never know. (best guess an armory cache broken open by the plough a long time ago)
2, The gatehouse features (I only spotted them after Steve raised Windridge as a site to look at) seem to have traction and I have been told they (at least one of them) will imminently appear in the HER. The Gatehouse and Fort interpretation have not been challenged yet.
3, The LDA letter is dated 2021 so an active attempt on behalf of CP Holdings to get the site into the local plan housing allocation stating there is "no archaeological constraint to developing the site" despite the Villa being on the HER since 2017. (LDA continue to be a disappointment)
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/compa...gs-limited
4, The potential Fort will be the justification for exploration and potential protection rather than a Battlefield proposal.
5, The local Archaeo group have stared their intention to survey (Mag I think) the site as soon as they can get around to it
6, The two missing components here are land owner consent and archaeological survey resources. I have tried to get both to no avail which is very disappointing.
On the basis of this I am happy the sites profile is being raised, certainly within the context of the revolt, but having not yet received my copy of the book can't comment much more on it's nomination other than to feel it's another outlier to the terrain description and battle narrative.
It's a honking big potential Roman Fort, right outside St Albans... I can't see a forcibus, I can see no fort in the battle narrative but the fort potential is there and could be a really significant site for Hertfordshire and Roman Military archaeology and I simply don't get why it isn't high up the agenda for exploration.... frustrating and time to move on....
1, I have heard (source not to be revealed here) that the site has probably yielded thousands of glandes over decades of nighthawking, we will never know. (best guess an armory cache broken open by the plough a long time ago)
2, The gatehouse features (I only spotted them after Steve raised Windridge as a site to look at) seem to have traction and I have been told they (at least one of them) will imminently appear in the HER. The Gatehouse and Fort interpretation have not been challenged yet.
3, The LDA letter is dated 2021 so an active attempt on behalf of CP Holdings to get the site into the local plan housing allocation stating there is "no archaeological constraint to developing the site" despite the Villa being on the HER since 2017. (LDA continue to be a disappointment)
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/compa...gs-limited
4, The potential Fort will be the justification for exploration and potential protection rather than a Battlefield proposal.
5, The local Archaeo group have stared their intention to survey (Mag I think) the site as soon as they can get around to it
6, The two missing components here are land owner consent and archaeological survey resources. I have tried to get both to no avail which is very disappointing.
On the basis of this I am happy the sites profile is being raised, certainly within the context of the revolt, but having not yet received my copy of the book can't comment much more on it's nomination other than to feel it's another outlier to the terrain description and battle narrative.
It's a honking big potential Roman Fort, right outside St Albans... I can't see a forcibus, I can see no fort in the battle narrative but the fort potential is there and could be a really significant site for Hertfordshire and Roman Military archaeology and I simply don't get why it isn't high up the agenda for exploration.... frustrating and time to move on....
