Roman Wall

Name: Roman Wall
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by Griff Hosker Book 12 in the The Sword of Cartimandua series.

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With a legion absent from northern Britain, enemies of Roman rule see an opportunity to attack the frontier. A wealthy Romano-British woman helps finance resistance and tribal forces are equipped well enough to threaten settlements and military positions on both sides of Hadrian’s Wall.

Marcus’s auxiliary cavalry and the warriors associated with the Sword of Cartimandua are left to respond before rebellion spreads farther south toward Eboracum. The novel presents the wall as a contested military zone rather than a fixed boundary, where Roman, British and northern identities overlap. Small mobile units must compensate for the missing legion while political and religious hostility turns local revolt into a wider frontier crisis.

Historical Periods

Boudican Revolt60–61 CE Battle of Mons Graupius83 CE Reign of Hadrian117–138 CE Roman Britain under the Flavians69–96 CE Hadrian’s Wall122–410 CE

Historical people

Boudica30–61 Caratacus15–54 Vespasian9–79 Hadrian76–138 Domitian51–96 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus10–c. 60s Gnaeus Julius Agricola40–93 Quintus Petillius Cerialis30–83 Trajan53–117 Calgacusborn c. 1st century Cartimanduac. 1st century–69