Where have our Eagles gone?

[M. Demetrius]

That's a good point about the relative scarcity, and if that supposition is right, that the eagle of a particular legion might be kept in that legion for perhaps centuries (of time, not men), it makes them even scarcer.

Suppose, out of all the fifty or so different legions throughout the history of Rome, civil wars, conquests, and so forth, there were only EVER fifty, spread out over seven or eight hundred years. If would figure they would not turn up often in the archeological record.