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Shields - the most important defensive weapons
Dedication stone to Mercurius Cimbrianus
The garrisons of the numerus
and cohort
forts can be identified by the many inscriptions that have been
found. The auxiliary
troops often came from outlying provinces. At the Main troops
have been identified from Aquitania, Spain, the area around
Augsburg, and modern Switzerland, among others. It is assumed that
there was a total of about 3,500 men garrisoned at the Limes.
Fort Hainstadt:
cohorts?
Fort Großkrotzenburg:
"cohors III
Vindelicorum"
Fort Seligenstadt:
"cohors I
civium Romanorum"
Fort Stockstadt:
"cohors III
Aquitanorum equitata civium Romanorum"
"cohors II
Hispanorum equitata"
"cohors I
Aquitanorum veterana equitata"
Fort Niedernberg:
"cohors I
Ligurum et Hispanorum civium Romanorum"
Fort Obernburg:
"cohors
IIII Aquitanorum equitata civium Romanorum"
"numerus
Brittonum et exploratorum Nemanigensium"
Fort Wörth:
"numerus
Brittonum et exploratorum Nemanigensium?"
Fort Trennfurt:
Numerus?
"vexillatio agentium in lignariis" of the 22nd Legion from
Mainz
Fort Miltenberg-Altstadt:
"cohors I
Sequanorum et Rauracorum equitata"
"exploratio Triputiensium" (Parts of the "numerus
Brittonum Triputiensis" from Fort Schlossau in the Odenwald)
Fort Miltenberg-Ost:
"numerus
exploratorum Seiopensium"
Literature:
ORL. Baatz 2000,
175ff. und 214ff.
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