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Newstead fort, Scottish borders, Scotland
Iron
Segmental armour developed over time. This example has fewer exposed hinges and fittings, to avoid them becoming damaged during battle. From the same Scottish findspot as the body armour is this armoured sleeve, inspired by the sword-arm protection used by Roman gladiators. This late AD 100s legionary look is completed with an armour-piercing javelin, a straight-edged short sword and a helmet with fully developed neck protection.*
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
Same info. as other. On location, see pipline has already been laid out. The cat parked is a pipe layer.
This same bird was seen moments later kicking seed out from the bird feeder!
March 15, 2010 (73/365)
A friend asked me for a better view of the bottom - so here it is. I used two diffferent clays and smoothed out one side. Then I cut it up and flipped some pieces over so I had two textures and then joined them together. After it was fired the first time I painted the enitre bottom with Mahogany underglaze and then wiped it off (leaviing some in the cracks and rough spot. (The inside is totally smooth and glazed to be food safe.)
Same as last night's rubbish - sunset stuff from the Clyde and Black & White Carts, 30th September 2015.
Same individual as in the previous video, Greene Valley Forest Preserve, near Woodridge, IL (DuPage County).
Stitched Panorama from three images taken while being ferried, in a taxi-boat, from Venice to Marco Polo airport.
Same as last night's rubbish - sunset stuff from the Clyde and Black & White Carts, 30th September 2015.
Hannah, Matt and Lori Sames at Earl Burnell's home in Plattsburgh, New York. www.hannahshopefund.org