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Draco – the dragon standard, AD 190–260
Niederbieber, Germany
Bronze
By the AD 100s, a distinctive windsock-like standard especially suited to being wielded from the saddle had been adopted from Rome's Sarmatian (nomadic Iranian) foes – the draco. This bronze standard head originally had a tube of colourful materials attached.
Carried by a draconarius, the material trailed behind the rider, blown by the breeze and emitting a whistling sound to suggest the fearsome beast's howl. Its pole was attached through two holes on the top and bottom of the head.*
From the exhibition
Legion - life in the Roman army
(February – June 2024)
From family life on the fort to the brutality of the battlefield, this exhibition experienced Rome's war machine through the people who knew it best – the soldiers who served in it.
Few men are born brave; many become so from care and force of discipline.
Vegetius, Fourth-century Roman writer
The Roman Empire spanned more than a million square miles and owed its existence to its military might. By promising citizenship to those without it, the Roman army – the West's first modern, professional fighting force – also became an engine for creating citizens, offering a better life for soldiers who survived their service.
Expansive yet deeply personal, this exhibition transported you across the empire, as well as through the life and service of a real Roman soldier, Claudius Terentianus, from enlistment and campaigns to enforcing occupation then finally, in Terentianus' case, retirement. Objects included letters written on papyri by soldiers from Roman Egypt and the Vindolanda tablets – some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. The tablets, from the fort near Hadrian's wall, revealed first-hand what daily life was like for soldiers and the women, children and enslaved people who accompanied them.
Roman military history perhaps stretches as far back as the sixth century BC but it wasn't until the first emperor, Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), that soldiering became a career choice. While the rewards of army life were enticing – those in the legions could earn a substantial pension and those entering the auxiliary troops could attain citizenship for themselves and their families – the perils were real. Soldiers were viewed with fear and hostility by civilians – not helped by their casual abuses and extra roles as executioners and enforcers of occupation – and they could meet grim ends off, as well as on, the battlefield. Finds in Britain, featured in the exhibition, included the remains of two soldiers probably murdered and clandestinely buried in Canterbury, suggesting local resistance.
What did life in the Roman army look like from a soldier's perspective? What did their families make of life in the fort? How did the newly-conquered react? Legion explored life in settled military communities from Scotland to the Red Sea through the people who lived it.
[*British Museum]
Taken at the British Museum
Mahogany body with maple neck and EMG's. Amazing shred machine that I sold "accidently" - wish I still had that one.
A gondola system once carried ore from the mine to the mill, saving hundreds of hours of work for both horses and men. The gondolas were loaded at the top of the hill, then run down a cable to the mill, where the bottom would automatically opened to drop the ore out. Photo by Kathy Weiser, July, 2009.
Oas Standard High School Grand Homecoming 2013 - December 27-29, 2013. Oas, Albay, Philippines
Oas Standard High School Grand Reunion 2013
BR Standard Class No. 80079 awaits the signals on the approach to Bridgnorth at the Severn Valley Railway.
A pair of CSX GEs lead autoracks westbound across the Potomac River in Harpers Ferry, WV on March 15, 2014
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