01-09-2013, 04:00 AM
Quote:What's the cohort for, then? Good question. :wink:
Just administrative, you think?
But how about building inscriptions giving a legion and cohort number - this would suggest that a single cohort was sent off to do some work somewhere, so presumably would have had a leader? I don't know whether they'd count as a vexillation in this case (or in the case of a cohort detached to garrison somewhere - Corbridge, or Carlisle maybe - did this happen?) Could one of the centurions be given the temporary position of praepositus while detached from the legion?
Trouble is, I don't know of any vexillation consisting of a single legionary cohort!
Nathan Ross