A ‘Roman’ army from Norway ?

[Jim Webster]

An interesting article with some debate about the origin of the men mentioned

I suspect we've come across this before.


https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-denmark-roman-empire/a-roman-army-from-norway-of-a-thousand-men-may-have-fought-in-denmark-1800-years-ago/2600351

[DBS]

Circa 1,000 men is a much higher figure than I have seen suggested before, and seems a tad of a strain to assume that they are all discharged auxiliaries, as opposed to a 100 odd warband or retinue that had either a few ex-auxiliaries or a few chaps with prestige Imperial items from trade or diplomatic gifting.

[Erpingham]

I suspect we've come across this before.

Perhaps not exactly, but it does crop up in a paper about another deposit at Ejsbøl we discussed here

https://forum.soa.org.uk/index.php?topic=4776.msg63082#msg63082

Direct link to paper here

https://www.academia.edu/9660359/Mission_Impossible_The_Ejsb%C3%B8l_Army_Organization_Attack_and_Defeat

Note there is a fair bit of introduction, contents pages etc. to wade through to reach the article.

[Jim Webster]

Actually this video is also an interesting look at the Romans in Denmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbyih681JA