In 1954, the children’s novel ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ popularised the legend of the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Recent research has shown the Ninth was not ...

so they created their own army called the Nauvoo Legion. Despite multiple people being involved in the massacre and subsequent cover-up, John Doyle Lee, a militia major, was the only person who ...

Using clues from aerial photography and chance finds in fields, archaeologist and Roman expert Simon Elliott thinks he has identified a major engagement involving the Ninth Legion in Derbyshire.