Information on the army, its sites and the history of the province are arranged as separate sections that follow this introduction.
Descriptions, reconstructions and plans of the different types of sites
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Information on the army, its sites and the history of the province are arranged as separate sections that follow this introduction. Descriptions, reconstructions and plans of the different types of sites |
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| 55 and 54 BC Julius Caesar's expeditions |
55 and 54 BC No sites identified |
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| 41 AD Claudius Emperor |
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43 AD Invasion of Britain |
43 AD Richborough |
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| c 44 - 47 AD Consolidation, East Midlands, East Anglia and Southern England occupied |
c 44 - 47 AD Legio II moves south west from Sussex, vexillation fortresses in West Sussex, Dorset and Alchester? Legio XIV in the Midlands? Legio XX at Colchester and Legio IX in the Cambridgeshire and southern Lincolnshire. |
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| 47 - 52 AD Province extended to Severn-Trent. Campaigns in southern Wales, Cheshire/Clwyd, Pennines and East Anglia. |
47 - 52 AD Legio II builds fortress at Exeter? Legio XX moves to Kingsholm. Vexillation fortresses of Legio XIV in West Midlands and Shropshire? Legio IX builds vexillation fortresses north east Midlands? |
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| 52 AD Caratacus captured |
52 AD Sites close to the hill fort at Abertanant, Powys? |
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| 52 - 58 AD Campaigns in the Pennines and continuing campaigns in South Wales |
52 - 58 AD Vexillation fortresses built in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, West Midlands and Shropshire? |
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54 AD Nero Emperor |
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| c 58 - 60 AD Suetonius Paullinus campaigns in North Wales and Anglesey Boudica's rebellion |
c 58 - 60 AD Renewed fort building in the Midlands and East Anglia |
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| 69 AD Vespasian Emperor, start of Flavian dynasty |
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| Vettius Bolanus rescues Queen Cartimandua and becomes embroiled in war with the Brigantes in the Pennines | Start of fort building in Pennines and Scotland | ||
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c 77/78? - c 84/85? AD Julius Agricola completes the conquest of Wales and then campaigns in northern England and Scotland leading to the battle of Mons Graupius |
c 77/78? - c 84/85? AD Fort building in Scotland |
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| c 84/85?- c 87? AD Consolidation of earlier advances |
c 84/85?- c 87? AD 'Highland Line' forts (Stirling and Perth & Kinross) and Gask Ridge frontier built? Inchtuthil fortress started |
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| c 87? AD Abandonment of northern Scotland starts |
c 87? AD Inchtuthil demolished whilst still incomplete |
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c 87? - 90? AD Central and southern Scotland still held |
c 87? - 90? AD Forts in Cheviots and Dumfries and Galloway occupied |
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c 90 AD - 100 AD Pull back to Scotland south of the Forth-Clyde isthmus
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c 90 AD - 100 AD Forts in southern Cheviots and Dumfries and Galloway occupied |
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| c 100 AD Further withdrawal to Solway-Tyne line |
c 100 AD Stanegate frontier established - series of forts and fortlets along the road from the Solway to the Tyne |
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| 96 AD End of Flavian dynasty 98 AD |
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| 120 AD Hadrian visits Britain |
120 AD Work starts on curtain, mile castles and turrets of Hadrian's Wall Stanegate forts abandoned and forts added to the Wall Most forts in Wales abandoned early in the second century |
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| 138 AD Antoninus Pius Emperor |
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| c 140 AD Re-advance into central and southern Scotland |
c 140 AD Work starts on the Antonine Wall |
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| c 155 AD Troubles in Northern England? |
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| c 163 AD Abandonment of Scotland |
c 163 AD Return to Hadrian's Wall |
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| 196-197 AD Clodius Albinus's rebellion |
196-197 AD Re-building of forts in Pennines, damaged during disorders following Albinus's withdrawal of their garrisons to Gaul? |
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208 - 211 AD Septimus Severus campaigns in Scotland |
208 - 211 AD Hadrian's Wall refurbished 25.5 ha series of temporary camps Carpow fortress begun |
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| c 215 AD Withdrawal from Scotland |
c 215 AD Carpow abandoned |
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| c 250 AD Increasing numbers of Saxon pirates, Carausius rebels |
c 250 AD Saxon Shore forts begun |
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| 286- 293 AD The coins of Carausius provide the last reference to the XX legion |
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306 AD Constantius's expedition to Britain Constantine declared Emperor at York |
306 AD Refurbishment of Hadrian's Wall |
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| 367 AD 'Barbarian Conspiracy' and Theodosius's expedition to Britain |
367 AD Final refurbishment of Hadrian's Wall |
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| 387-388 AD Maximus's rebels and takes elements of the province's army to Gaul |
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| 399 AD Stilicho sends troops to Britain |
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| c 400 AD The Notitia Dignitatum refers to the VI legion as being at York and Secundai Britones (derived from II Augusta) at Richborough. |
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| 407 AD Constantine III rebels and moves to Gaul with part of the British army to recover territory lost to Barbarian invaders |
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| c 410 AD Britain ceases to be part of the Empire |
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c 470 AD Resurgence of Saxon activity |
491 AD Massacre of the defenders of Pevensey fort |
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