Tristan Hughes
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well cared for or something like that.
And house stairs as well.
Isn't there a big hairstyle shift in the early 3rd century when an empress comes up to Hadrian's Wall, Julia Domna, the wife of Septimius Severus?
Do you think that becomes a trend along Hadrian's Wall?
And this is for a big invasion into Scotland at the time.
Well, moving on, you mentioned also that the soldier were on duty, so their armour, and you mentioned also earlier chainmail and scale armour.
Is that the types of armour that we should be imagining for people who were either cavalrymen or who were living either as infantry or cavalry, serving as infantry or cavalry on any fort along Hadrian's Wall?
Well, if we were, first of all, let's say a routine day in the life of a soldier, we can focus on cavalry to start with the SDS and then we can look at infantry as well.
But do we know much about the routine of a soldier if they were on duty that day?
Do we know much about that?
And do you think escort missions would be a big part, actually, of these garrisons once in a while?
Well, yeah, that's another question.
Do we know much about, you know, training yards or about how, not exercises as such, but yeah, drill, I guess.
So how have they been able to identify it as a training hall?
Have they found straw dummies on the ground or anything like that?
So, I mean, going back to the duties of a soldier, so you mentioned kind of being on guard on the wall, if he did have a walkway, presumably he did have a walkway.