History’s greatest mysteries: what happened to the Roman Ninth Legion?
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The Eagle of the Nineteenth Legion
A bronze eagle had been found at silchester, near basingstoke in hampshire in the 18 sixties. The basis for rosemary's sucklif's novel was the fact that this could be a legionary eagle. Only one legion is known as having gone missing in britain. And anyway, that eagle in silchester isn't from the army. Perhaps part of a a jupiter statue. But it has got nothing to do with the ninth at all.
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