[SunkenCiv]

Rosemary Sutcliffe's "The Eagle of the Ninth" is the source of the modern myth that a Roman legion was annihilated in Caledonia (not Scotland, the ancestors of the Scots were peeing their kilts in fear in Ireland for a century after the Romans left Britain). The loss of the Ninth in Caledonia just didn't happen. Roman conquest of Caledonia was never finished because A) there wasn't anything of much value in the whole territory and B) because there was seldom any threat at all from the Pictish population.

• Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows
• The Romans in Ireland
• World Heritage bid hope for wall [ Antonine Wall in Scotland ]
• Iron-masters of the Caledonians
• Hadrian's Wall Had A Bigger And Older Scottish Brother [tr]

[Red Badger]

IOW, the Romans Pict their enemies wisely.................

[colorado tanker]

I suppose to someone from the Mediterranean, Yorkshire must have seemed a bleak wasteland. Personally, I found the Dales a beautiful place.