This paper attempts to build on Hind's hypothesis (1989) that the Roman invasion of AD 43 took place in Sussex, by examining the implications for the conquest campaign. It is suggested that the usual tactics of the Roman army and the size of the invading army are not consistent with the standard invasion campaign theory, in particular the events leading up to the so-called battle of the Medway. Other aspects of the evidence available to us are also inconsistent with the standard theory but can be explained in terms of a Sussex landing. The result is to offer further support for Hind's hypothesis.In a recent article J.G.F. Hind (1989) has challenged what has become the established version of events in AD 43 by arguing that the Plautian invasion force landed in the harbours behind the Isle of Wight, and avoided Kent altogether. Although this hypothesis has not yet been fully accepted it offers the opportunity to reconsider the Plautian conquest of southern Britain and perhaps make better sense of some of the anomalies, such as the rôle of the Dobunni, the curious absence of Caratacus and the early favouring of Verulamium. It also allows enough room for a very large Roman army to carry out the kind of campaign we should expect from it. 1 Hind has gathered and presented most of the available evidence (including a translation of Dio), and there is no need to repeat it here. Because of the need for very precise dating, archaeology can offer little help, although the increasing evidence for early Roman activity over the area between Fishbourne and Chichester is some support for the Hind hypothesis (e.g. Cunliffe 1998, 31). We remain largely reliant on the historical sources, and although they obviously include a degree of bias, especially towards the Flavian dynasty, there is no particular reason to suppose that the facts recorded are not presented more or less accurately, so far as was within the powers of the authors. The main source is of course the narrative of Cassius Dio, which seems to be a rapid but reasonably full summary in chronological order, based on earlier works which have not survived, presumably including the relevant part of Tacitus' Annals.

Recent studies of Roman gold-mining, in Britain at Dolaucothi, and in Spain at las Médulas, Montefurado and Puerto del Palo, have shown that many valuable results can be obtained at such sites by a careful programme of field-work. The present article is the result of field-work in the region of the Rio Duerna in 1970. It was also possible to undertake a special in-depth survey of one of the mines, the working known as los Castellones. This mine was chosen as one of the most important and interesting in the valley.Previously attention has centred on the hard-rock mines of the south of Spain and Portugal, and there are few sources referring to the gold-mines of the north in any but very general terms. O. Davies has compiled a list of most of them and thus rendered a valuable service, in spite of some errors. Strangely he does not give the most comprehensive source as his reference for the mines of the Duerna area (which he calls ‘Quintanilla’ on his map IIIa), although he makes use of it elsewhere.

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