speaking of foreign armies of occupation

[winterbadger]

No, I'm skipping right over the Iraq news today, for something a bit older...

The first Roman tombstone found in Scotland for 170 years has been unearthed at Carberry, near Inveresk.

The red sandstone artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

wow, that's great

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Interesting find.

[wolfette]

as my friend Shamenka is fond of telling me (and anyone who will listen), Musselburgh is older than Edinburgh. The Roman fort at Inveresk was an important port when all Edinburgh had was an iron age fort on a hill.