Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

410: Roman legions have left Britain and Isca Dumnoniorum is all but abandoned as it begins to decay. 476: The Roman Empire falls when the last emperor, Romulus Augustus, resigns.

Roman legion turns back the clock with battle against barbarians on Hadrian's Wall Legio 1 Italica group were at at Birdoswald Roman fort at Gilsland on the Northumberland-Cumbria border for the ...