Dr. Francis McIntosh

There's a potential they've got Tigris boatmen there.

And the River Tigris, I mean, depends where upon it, but that's Turkey, Syria, Iraq.

Iraq, yeah.

You know, there's a brough on sands.

There's a unit of what the Romans would call moors from North Africa.

So there's no Italians wearing skirts and, you know, sandals with no socks, you know, up on the wall.

But also there's no units that are, you know, recruited in Britain.

Yeah.

However...

There's a big decision to be made.

If you're part of the second ally Astoria, so the second cavalry unit of Astoria, and so it's based at Chester's, how many of them actually came from Astoria by the time they came to Hadrian's Wall?

And then that unit is based there for 150 years?

Are they always waiting, you know, the three months it might take for a letter to get back to Astoria to send up?

Or are they recruiting locally?

And we just don't know these things.

But what we do know is the names stay.

And, you know, because the names are very important and quite often traditions associated with places that those units originally came from still remain as well.

So there's some pride in keeping that link, whether or not any of them have ever actually even lived there.

Yeah, and I suppose, you know...

Say, you know, you're from Astoria.