Dr. Francis McIntosh

They come and set up court and there's a lot more coinage around.

Julia Domna's image is on those coins.

Yes, yeah.

So he comes through the wall.

We always say he probably passed through Corbidge because that's the main route north.

And anyone who wants to be fashionable...

or wants to curry favour or want to have the same hairstyle as the imperial household so in York in particular you know where she's based gonna see people who are wanting to come to because basically the court moves doesn't it it's like when Henry VIII goes on his progress and things so yes we see hairstyles change in the third century and in the first and second century hairpins are really fancy particularly on the end bit that you see that sticks out of the hair whereas later in the third century they're plainer because actually they're

thing that you want to look at is the hairstyle and the design and it's all these intricate plaits but there's no hairspray and there's no hair clips so it's held in place by beeswax and animal fat and the beeswax probably smells okay but

Yes.

So this lorica segmentata, or segmented armour, which looks like big plates, a bit like an armadillo, traditionally that was thought to only be for legionaries.

We know now it's not quite the case, but it was going out of use as we move into a time when Hadrian's Wall is active.

And so, yeah, it's going to be scale armour or chain armour or mail armour.

Mike Bishop will not let me call it chain mail, which is not the correct term.

Right.

And that is made in a sort of mass production way.

So I could make loads and loads and loads of rings.

I didn't have no skill.

But then you'd be the trained armourer who would then take all my rings and make it into the shape.

And the same with the scales.

Whereas a loric segmentata, you need to be skilled to make all of that.