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  • Pottery inkwell, an iron stylus for writing on waxed tablets, a seal-box and a lead property marker inscribed 'Century of Vibius Proculus'. The legion kept meticulous records - military reports, rosters, lists of supplies and requests for leave - and soldiers wrote letters to their families and friends. Many documents and letters have been found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, south of Hadrian's Wall. Caerleon, 'City of the Legion', was known to the Romans as Isca. Established in AD 74 or 75, Isca was one of the three permanent legionary bases in Roman Britain: the other two were at Chester (Deva) and York (Eberacum). The fortress, sited at the lowest bridging-point across the River Usk, held a key position in the military road system in South Wales. Its garrison, as inscriptions tell us, was legio II Augusta, a body of heavy infantry comprising well over 5,000 men. The legion finally departed from Caerleon at the end of the third century.
Roman pottery inkwell, stylus etc. from Caerleon