Legionary brooch from Vindolanda......

[Caballo]

Hi

Thought you'd like to see this.


Found in the 2006 Vindolanda excavations, the write up states "The first two months of the 2006 season have been bedevilled by cold and wet weather, but summer has at last arrived, and real progress is being made. In the far western area, Justin's team continues to search for more of the massive posts of the early building that lies within a quite separate defensive system - and it is beginning to look like a legionary base, perhaps connected with the construction of the Wall in the AD 120's. Nearby finds have included the spectacular brooch, once owned by Quintus Sollonius from the century of Capitus, who very kindly had his name inscribed on the clasp. Capitus was probably the Second Legion Augusta centurion, who left behind an inscription at Caerleon." http://www.vindolanda.com/

Are the figure either side of the Roman musculata figure tribesmen, or Tungrian auxilaries? Interesting hexagonal shield, certainly! Still amazing finds coming out of Vindolanda- I must renew my "Friends of Vindolanda" membership!

Cheers

Caballo