I'd say east med ethnically diverse, it's was a hotbed for everything. Britain on fringe not diverse. Just a colony. A wet one at that.
-
-
After all this was an outpost really, the ratio of Roman soldiers to auxiliaries lowest in empire. Shows low priority or no need.
-
In fairness that varied a lot over time - fairly often Britain was a heavily militarised province (and indeed at
-
one point simply declared its own empire including large chunks of Gaul)
-
If I remember correctly, didn't the auxiliaries betray the legions in Germany? How trusted were auxiliaries? As it begs another question.>
-
They relied v heavily on the auxiliaries - but trust only went so far. Standard Roman policy was that aux units...
-
...were never deployed in their home province, in case they joined rather that put down a local rebellion.
-
re whether Britain was a priority or backwater, for eg in the 130s AD Britain was the station for 1/7th of the...
-
...Army, more than the Rhine frontier (two provinces) or the North African frontier (three provinces)
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
> one, plus a meta-analysis I did of Romano-British cemeteries indicates over 40% of cems studied have at least one person of probable >
-
> African origin... Which strikes me as a noteworthy figure that backs up the big cem studies :)
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.


