The End of the Ninth Legion, War in Britain and the Building of Hadrian's Wall

Britannia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
N. Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Hadrian's Wall

ABSTRACT It is often stated that the Ninth Legion was transferred from Britain and continued to exist until the 130s or beyond. The evidence is reviewed, and it is concluded that: (1) no more than a detachment of the legion went abroad, and that only for the period c. 105 to c. 120; (2) there is no prosopographical or other evidence which proves that the legion existed after the early 120s. Given that war, heavy Roman losses and an interruption in the building of Hadrian's Wall are directly attested in Britain, probably occurring in 122 or shortly after, it is argued that it is most likely that the legion was defeated and disbanded in connection with those events.

Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1955–7

1958 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 86-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. St. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Hadrian's Wall

This paper brings up to date accounts of discoveries by air reconnaissance in the field of Romano-British studies already published in this Journal (JRS XLI, XLIII, and XLV). In the last few years nearly every major Roman site in Britain has been repeatedly reconnoitred from the air in a yearly course of flights especially planned for the purpose of research. The body of information thus obtained shows that even air survey conducted over several successive years does not exhaust the possibilities of acquiring new knowledge at places already known, while discovery of sites hitherto unrecognized continues apace. The incidence of the discoveries, however, proves to vary. Scrutiny of military sites in the area of Hadrian's Wall and its hinterland, which yielded so much information in the decade 1945–55, has in the last three years added comparatively little to the record.

ENGLAND 3. HADRIAN'S WALL

Britannia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 298-302
Author(s):  
Pete Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Hadrian's Wall

The Western Extension of Hadrian's Wall: Bowness to Cardurnock

Britannia ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 236 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. B. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Hadrian's Wall

Coventina's Well: A Shrine on Hadrian's Wall

Britannia ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 524
Author(s):  
George C. Boon ◽  
L. Allason-Jones ◽  
B. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Hadrian's Wall

The Fate of Agricola's Northern Conquests

1938 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
T. Davies Pryce ◽  
Eric Birley
Keyword(s):  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Hadrian's Wall ◽  
Considerable Discussion

The problem of the duration of the first Roman occupation of Scotland is an interesting and important one, and it has been the subject of considerable discussion since the excavation of Newstead added the evidence of archaeology to that of the scanty literary sources. There can be no doubt that, by the time that Hadrian's Wall was planned, Agricola's conquests north of Cheviot had been relinquished by the Romans, but it is not definitely known at what date after his recall, late in the year A.D. 84, the withdrawal took place. There are four emperors under whom the change of frontier policy thus effected may have occurred—Domitian, Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. The latter's evacuation of most of Trajan's Eastern acquisitions seemed, at one time, to qualify him as the author of a similar limitation of the Empire's extent in Britain.

Hadrian's Wall and its Associated Museums

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Young
Keyword(s):  
Hadrian's Wall
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