midday
Upon the morning of the day fixed for the gathering of the Iceni preparations were begun early at Cardun . Oxen and swine were slaughtered , great fires made , and the women in the village were all employed in making and baking oaten cakes upon the hearth . For some days many of them had been employed in making a great store of fermented honey and water . Men began to flock in from an early hour , and by midday every male of the Sarci capable of bearing arms had come in . Each brought with him a supply of cooked meat and cakes sufficient to last for three or four days . In the afternoon the tribes began to pour in , each tribe under its chiefs . There was no attempt at order or regularity ; they came trooping in in masses , the chiefs sometimes in chariots sometimes on horseback , riding at their head .