Gauls and Britons - new inscription

Current Archaeology (issue 205) has an interesting piece on qn inscription found at Vindolanda.

It was found in the SW corner of the fort and the inscription read

CIVES GALLI
DE GALLIA
CONCORDES
QVE BRITANNI

which they translate as: "The troops from Gaul dedicate this statue to the goddess Gallia, with the full support of the British-born troops".

The interesting implications are firstly that there are Gauls still on the frontier and secondly that Britons was an accepted term for those from Britain - i.e. presumably some sense of unity within the province?

They also found a very priapic statue of Priapus.


To find out more visit the Vindolanda site and see the Excavation News page

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