Ben Kane

But if the carbon dating works, then it certainly is possible.

That's definite because it's below the ash layer from the destruction of Colchester by Boudicca's army.

I show that image in talks I do and I say,

This is from such a date in 60 AD.

We don't know exactly when in 60 AD, but it's so rare to have an exact date.

The best one for that is the loaf of bread from the oven in Pompeii.

And that was baking when Vesuvius went boom.

Yeah, on that day.

So I sometimes have a best before date with an arrow in the slide when I'm showing it to people.

And most people don't get it.

We do.

We know that his force initially was made up of Celts, i.e.

Gauls, although there were Celts in Thrace as well, but probably primarily from Gaul.

and germans very warlike people now probably some thracians as well we do have a few names we have the name in a mouse and we have the name crixus both of whom were goals and look these would have been alpha males all of them there would have been no oh spartacus you're the boss it would have been well you've got the ideas but maybe i've got some ideas and it would not have been

a happy camp.

They wouldn't have been doing what he told them, and that was evident fairly soon after the rebellion began.

But they certainly went along with what he was doing for the moment as they moved down into the south.

And obviously, that far south, the winters are milder.

So they spent the winter of 73 into 72 BC in the Bay of Tarento, and then started moving north again in spring of 72 BC.

And by this point, the Romans were taking it a bit more seriously.