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Censusdata,
Thanks for posting the documentaries. They open a 'window on another world.' It's remarkable that the researchers were able to restore many of the 1900-year-old tablets enough to extract information about their everyday concerns and way of life. Especially interesting was the fact that the Romans tried to keep the barbarians at bay around the perimeter of their vast empire with only 130,000 men. Not surprisingly, the legionnaires formed friendships and romantic interests in the occupied lands, often leading them to desert the legion rather than accept another post.
The fierce Pictish people have always been an enigma.The large cache of Roman coins found at the site of the Picts headquarters strongly indicates that even the Romans sometimes found it reasonable to "buy" their enemy off rather than fight an exhausting war of attrition. As they say, 'The more things change, the more they remain the same.'
John
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