04-28-2010, 10:56 AM
I think that if we want to look for evidence about the later period of the Ninth Legion in Britain, it would be a good thing for Archaeologists to get out their Trowels and go look for it along the earlier frontier discovered by the late Raymond Selkirk known as his 255 degree line.
It was a frontier very well known to Hadrian possibly built by Trajan, and all he did when he came here was to swing this earlier line around on it's axis point where the two lines now cross about 1-5 miles west of the fort of Vindobala ( Rudchester )
Where I mention it may have been built by Trajan is where it might be considered that the original idea for this frontier may have been concieved in the late Flavian period when the withdrawal from Scotland came in around AD98.
Where I have said earlier that I consider the answer lies in mid Cumbria, this is indeed the heart land of the west Brgantian tribes who were well known for collaberation with the Novantii and Selgovii just to the north of the Solway.
It was a frontier very well known to Hadrian possibly built by Trajan, and all he did when he came here was to swing this earlier line around on it's axis point where the two lines now cross about 1-5 miles west of the fort of Vindobala ( Rudchester )
Where I mention it may have been built by Trajan is where it might be considered that the original idea for this frontier may have been concieved in the late Flavian period when the withdrawal from Scotland came in around AD98.
Where I have said earlier that I consider the answer lies in mid Cumbria, this is indeed the heart land of the west Brgantian tribes who were well known for collaberation with the Novantii and Selgovii just to the north of the Solway.
Brian Stobbs
