Professor Rob Collins

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almost certainly as part of that, they would give their soldiers access to that land.

And even if the soldiers themselves aren't farming, their families can farm.

And this is part of that sort of also, traditionally it would tie into that Roman retirement package.

If you're a soldier, you served your 20, 25 years, here's a stipend, here's some land, a couple cows and a bucket of seed, go and farm and grow some grain for your fellows in the army.

That's part of the traditional retirement package.

It's now just kind of being brought in.

And if you think about multi-generational families who will have access to this land, you're looking at this kind of long-term multi-generational settlement where people know the land.

And even if the men are serving in the army,

And they'll have children, they'll have wives, they'll have siblings, they'll have other parents.

There are other people that can be working the farmland.

And there is an emotional investment there.

And I think as much as the classic view, the romantic view of the Roman army of the legionaries and the second century,

is very dominant in popular culture.

The late Roman army is really interesting because you've got soldiers that are there for generations.

This is their home.

They're not migrants.

Some of them will be migrants, of course.

We can't expect that everyone is local.

But there will be many, perhaps 50 to 60% easily, who are from the region.