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Tristan Hughes

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The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

well cared for or something like that.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

And house stairs as well.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

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?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Do you think that becomes a trend along Hadrian's Wall?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

And this is for a big invasion into Scotland at the time.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Well, moving on, you mentioned also that the soldier were on duty, so their armour, and you mentioned also earlier chainmail and scale armour.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

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?

The Ancients
How to Survive on 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.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

But do we know much about the routine of a soldier if they were on duty that day?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Do we know much about that?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

A shift on the wall.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

They go back, okay.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

And do you think escort missions would be a big part, actually, of these garrisons once in a while?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Well, yeah, that's another question.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Do we know much about, you know, training yards or about how, not exercises as such, but yeah, drill, I guess.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

So how have they been able to identify it as a training hall?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Have they found straw dummies on the ground or anything like that?

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Yeah.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

Absolutely.

The Ancients
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

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.