Dr. Francis McIntosh

And so they just have to manage themselves.

Yeah.

And so, you know, Rob Collins, who I know has talked on here before, you know, talks about sort of these, they're becoming little movements of warlords or little sort of communities.

So the soldiers who are already based at Bird Oswald probably continue on doing a similar sort of thing, but there's no central control.

There's no money coming in.

They're not being paid.

There's no one controlling trade and things like that.

So they'll just manage themselves, but they were probably doing quite a bit of that already.

And it's just, it'll be a gradual change in terms of

but also Tony Wilmot has excavated what we think is a sort of long house.

And that's not made of stone, presumably because they haven't got the manpower and the sort of the system behind them to go and quarry more stone.

And they're also losing the skill of stone making, stone working because they're not using it.

You know, it becomes more small scale.

Everything just becomes more small scale and you're not connected.

So sort of levels of literacy seem to reduce.

Trading in money is less common.

It goes back to more of a barter economy because you're working more locally.

So I think a lot of the soldiers, a lot of the time on Hadrian's Wall, are just doing the same thing every day.

It's kind of boring.

You're on guard duty this week, next week you're on escort duty, the week after you've got to do this.