Tristan Hughes

Exactly.

Is that the idea?

Right, yeah.

And who are these communities?

The soldiers and their families who are living along Hadrian's Wall at this time, who I know you've done a lot of work around.

That's the one that's been in the Total Wars and everything like that.

So people would have grown up hearing about the Limitani or whatever.

So it's no longer the case of a vexillation of auxiliary soldiers from the mainland will be shipped over to help reinforce a particular place along the frontier.

It's your family's duty, almost, if you live on Hadrian's Wall.

Yeah.

in the mid-4th century, then your son in the later 4th century will also be expected to stay there.

And will they own land, do we think, as well in the area?

But it's such a clever, I think at least, it's such a clever idea because then you get those people just committed to that land.

And for as long as they still see themselves as being Roman...

Like, yes, maybe they still have to pay taxes, but as long as they're still in that idea of being Roman, you know, they will fight even harder to ensure that if there are any raiders coming down, that they're fended off because that is their property.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So as we get to the beginning of the 5th century AD, you mentioned earlier like the campaign of Stilicho and so on.

So you've got examples.

And that's what the Comet 10 says, is it?