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Hadrian’s Roman soldiers ‘had military tattoo’

http://www.mirabilis.ca/2006/08/31/hadrians-roman-soldiers-had-military-tattoo/

From Newcastle University: Hadrian’s Roman soldiers ‘had military tattoo’.

Currently fashionable among celebrities, footballers and pop stars, historical texts and archaeological evidence suggest that some form of tattooing has been practised in the British Isles for thousands of years.

‘It’s a little known fact, but it would appear that all of the legionaries and some of the auxiliaries on Hadrian’s Wall would have had a tattoo’, says the University’s Director of Archaeological Museums and Roman expert, Lindsay Allason-Jones.

The evidence comes from the Roman writer Vegetius, whose Epitome of Military Science, written around the 4th Century AD, is the only account of Roman military practice to have survived intact.

‘Vegetius recorded that [continue]

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