Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

The chain of comments regarding alternative sites above is not intended to emphatically lead to Church Stowe, rather it demonstrates how recent nominations have now strayed entirely (and frustratingly) beyond meaningful topographic determinants for nomination. I'm approaching this as a geographer and either you take the topography seriously, limiting the site characteristics and options (as Steve Kaye did), or you just stick a pin in the map and throw away the concept of a meaningful valley topography. I can't and see that approach as futile but I may well be wrong, I am an advocate for a particular method of research by terrain analysis, that's really all I have to offer ... I must stress I put Arbury Banks and Heydon in the "not taking the valley seriously" camp too.

I agree with all of this.  I was not intending to imply that you were leading up to Church Stowe.  I was commenting on that generally.  I will deal with what you say about that separately.  For the time being, I want to consider Upper Arncott.  I cannot access Martin Tagg's website (it seems to have been taken down) but I recall that he suggested two possible sites there.  Which is the one that you illustrated?