Professor Rob Collins

So it's their homeland.

So it might be the frontier of the Roman Empire, but it's their home.

And if you can make that connection, that helps you think a little bit differently about what's going to happen at the end when suddenly there is no Roman Empire.

But that doesn't mean that Hadrian's Wall disappears.

The wall is still there.

And so are those communities, these people who have lived there for generations.

There's a good chance that Stilicho is maybe doing some reorganization at the time.

It's a good opportunity for him to, with that military resource there, to commit some refurbishment and rebuilding of any dilapidated parts of the fortifications.

All sorts of things happen when you get some imperial attention.

One of the things that's really important, and I know this is kind of boring administrative structures, but it's really important that we understand those administrative structures of empire because that will help us better understand our archaeological evidence, and especially for something like an army, which will have supply networks, logistics.

those logistics are really important for us to understand how long is this really a frontier army, a unified frontier army, and when is it not?

When can we see the end of those military logistics?

I mean, it's not sexy, admittedly.

Where does your grain come from?

And how many cows do you get per season?

But

But it's that sort of thing that will help us understand if all these forts are still connected.

And key to that is the Supreme Commander, the Supreme General of the Northern Frontier Army, the Dukes Britanniarum, the Duke of the Britons.

He will be very high ranking.

He's...