Article on the L. IX Hispana (Factual????)

[Nathan Ross]

Seems you can't keep a good myth down... Another article today:

BBC: Ninth Legion's Mysterious Loss

The historians have dissented, theorising that the Ninth did not disappear in Britain at all, arguing both book and film are both wrong...

But, contrary to this view, there is not one shred of evidence that the Ninth were ever taken out of Britain. It's just a guess which, over time, has taken on a sheen of cast iron certainty. Three stamped tiles bearing the unit number of the Ninth found at Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, have been used to support the idea of transfer from Britain.

But these all seem to date to the 80s AD, when detachments of the Ninth were indeed on the Rhine fighting Germanic tribes. They do not prove that the Ninth left Britain for good...

It would seem that Sutcliff was right after all.

There's no indication of who wrote this article, or what qualification they might have to so blithely dismiss historical evidence... :evil: