Dr. Francis McIntosh
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And as you can imagine, sympathies are divided.
So we know that there's British units, you know, units originally based in Britain stationed elsewhere in the Empire.
We also know where lots of the units from Hadrian's Wall forts came from.
None of them were formed in Italy.
The officers, you know, the high ranking ones might have been Italian or Central Mediterranean because they're coming on basically their career path.
They're there for three or five years in one post and that's it.
Just as a quick sort of idea, we've got Bird Oswald, which in the West, they had Dacians, which is modern day Romania.
At Carvoran, we had potentially a contingent of Hamian archers.
At Hausteds, we've got Tungrians.
They're from the Low Countries and Belgium.
We had other units at houses also from parts of what the Romans would have called Germania.
We've got Spaniards from Asturia at Chester's and at Great Chester's.
Again, at houses, Frisians, they're from the Netherlands.
And then at Vindolanda and Carabroof, we've got Batavians from the Netherlands.
And then South Shields, which is not on the wall, but it's very much part of the system.