Wow. Surprisingly intact. How do we know it was a Roman soldier and not an honor killing because she was seen talking to a man she wasn’t related to?
There is a heck of a lot of surmising here.
A) How the heck do they know for certain it was a Roman Sword?
B) How do they know for certain it was welded by a “Roman” - whatever that meant in 50 A.D. - and not an auxiliary or even another Briton using a stolen sword?
C) Why was she killed in the first place? At 16 - 20 an individual, even a female, was capable of fighting in that culture.
It would seem that the people here allowed their imaginations to run a bit away with them.
But if you read Tacitus, you already KNOW that in battle situations Roman Soldiers, like all ancient soldiers, slaughtered as many of the enemy as they could get their hands on - combatants and non-combatants and so did their opponents.
Ancient warfare was not pretty - but then, neither is modern warfare.
I guess only under limited circumstances in the 1700’s and 1800’s was any real attempt made to civilize it - an effort doomed to failure, unfortunately.