Architectural remains of the 1,800-year-old Roman VIth ‘Ferrata’ Iron Legion military base were uncovered in a recent excavation carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA ...

Old soldiers often retired together in military towns ... the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ‘legions’. Each legion had between 4,000 and ...

The exception seems to have been the Ordovices of the centre and the North West. In the Forum in Rome today, there is a vast ...

but they lacked the organisation and military tactics of a Roman legion. The Romans were tightly disciplined and relied on a short stabbing sword in combat. Their front line was made up of ...

some possibly military, in surrounding fields over the years This leads Dr Elliott to paint a vivid picture of how the Roman occupation arrived in this part of the Midlands. "The Ninth Legion ...

The rebels burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St Albans) and several military posts ... 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and slaughtered the Roman Ninth Legion.