The slingshots contain the stamp of the third legion, a unit of the Imperial Roman army that was known to have fought at the battlefield below, showing a likely link between it and the military ...

Included amongst the finds were slingshots embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army which is known to have fought upon the battlefield below.

The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337. A Sourcebook by B Campbell (London, 1994) Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, c. 31 BC - AD 230 by B Campbell (London, 2002) The Making of the Roman Army from ...

For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and the power ... hoping that this tribute would win his family imperial protection. Instead, the opposite happened.