Elite roman burial in wales

[Imperial Dave]

https://arkeonews.net/elite-roman-man-buried-with-a-silver-crossbow-brooch-first-of-its-kind-found-in-wales/?fbclid=IwAR01-s3TyLCiziDYWYuNkweaBOkCmcgYlzGmeNsVpptZy9t4iCUX5tWaFoE

Another wow find for me....

[Jim Webster]

https://arkeonews.net/elite-roman-man-buried-with-a-silver-crossbow-brooch-first-of-its-kind-found-in-wales/?fbclid=IwAR01-s3TyLCiziDYWYuNkweaBOkCmcgYlzGmeNsVpptZy9t4iCUX5tWaFoE

Another wow find for me....

obviously he wasn't killed for his valuables!

[Erpingham]

This is, of course, the same wow find as the last one but with actual details.  So the "military uniform" of the last story was actually a sword and hob-nailed boots.  Death by tooth ache can't be a nice way to go.

The burial method is odd.  If he had been buried without grave goods, we'd probably have marked him as a ne'er do well or criminal.  Yet, this doesn't seem the case here. 

[Imperial Dave]

No so possibly a hero or suchlike and maybe not local?

[Andreas Johansson]

The man most likely grew up in the eastern region of Wales or elsewhere

I find that even today, most men either grow up in eastern Wales or somewhere else.

(Present company excepted, of course; wargamers never grow up.)

[Imperial Dave]

 

I grew up in (S) Eastern Wales