01-15-2007, 12:04 PM
How about a long-sleeved Gallic/Germanic tunic? That's what I do! :wink:
For 'Wall-based' units, there are numerous Germanic and Gallic units as well as Thracian, Belgic etc etc you could choose to portray. The world's your oyster in this respect!
As for Batavians based actually on the Wall (Brocolitia/Carrawburgh), the only unit were the first cohort of Batavians. This unit is not to be confused with cohors I Batavorvm Miliaria civivm Romanorvm pia fidelis, (the Panonnian unit).
this British-based unit was not raised until the first quarter of the second century either by Trajan, or Hadrian.
The earliest record of its presence in Britain is a diploma dating to AD122. (CIL 16, 00069). There is evidence that the first cohort of Batavians were involved in building part of the Vallum of Hadrian’s Wall near Carvoran and Castlesteads. (RIB 2015, RIB 1823/24). Hardly an activity for a battle-hardened unit, but suitable however, for a newly raised one. Both stones record the construction of the Vallum. The career of the unit in the second century is unknown, but it may have formed part of the expeditionary force for the Antonine occupation under Lollius Urbicus, although no evidence for this has been found.
The cohort appears to have been stationed at Brocolitia (Carrawburgh) from before AD222 until the time of the Notitia Dignitatum, early in the fifth century. It may have arrived in AD213 since the name ‘Antoniniana’ which features on the altar to Mithras dedicated by prefect L. Antonius Proculus (RIB 1544) attests the unit’s loyalty to either Caracalla or Elagabalus.
The other Batavian cohorts from the Stanegate forts such as Vindolanda were the Ninth and possibly a detachment from the third (mentioned in Vindolanda Tablet II 263).
For 'Wall-based' units, there are numerous Germanic and Gallic units as well as Thracian, Belgic etc etc you could choose to portray. The world's your oyster in this respect!
As for Batavians based actually on the Wall (Brocolitia/Carrawburgh), the only unit were the first cohort of Batavians. This unit is not to be confused with cohors I Batavorvm Miliaria civivm Romanorvm pia fidelis, (the Panonnian unit).
this British-based unit was not raised until the first quarter of the second century either by Trajan, or Hadrian.
The earliest record of its presence in Britain is a diploma dating to AD122. (CIL 16, 00069). There is evidence that the first cohort of Batavians were involved in building part of the Vallum of Hadrian’s Wall near Carvoran and Castlesteads. (RIB 2015, RIB 1823/24). Hardly an activity for a battle-hardened unit, but suitable however, for a newly raised one. Both stones record the construction of the Vallum. The career of the unit in the second century is unknown, but it may have formed part of the expeditionary force for the Antonine occupation under Lollius Urbicus, although no evidence for this has been found.
The cohort appears to have been stationed at Brocolitia (Carrawburgh) from before AD222 until the time of the Notitia Dignitatum, early in the fifth century. It may have arrived in AD213 since the name ‘Antoniniana’ which features on the altar to Mithras dedicated by prefect L. Antonius Proculus (RIB 1544) attests the unit’s loyalty to either Caracalla or Elagabalus.
The other Batavian cohorts from the Stanegate forts such as Vindolanda were the Ninth and possibly a detachment from the third (mentioned in Vindolanda Tablet II 263).
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