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lists their stations from east to west, as well as additional forts on the
Cumbrian coast. These troops appear to have been third century regiments, although the reliability of the
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Arnold Hugh Martin Jones: The Later Roman Empire, 284–602. A Social, Economic and
Administrative Survey. 2 Bde. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1986,
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The Dux
Britanniarum held command over thirty-eight regimental commanders. Infantry units were concentrated along the Wall. A Sarmatian unit of heavy cavalry (
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with the rest being infantry. They were newly raised units rather than being third century creations. In addition to these fort garrisons, the
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Demandt: Geschichte der Spätantike: Das Römische Reich von Diocletian bis Justinian 284-565 n. Chr. München 1998,
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Nick Fields: Rome's Saxon Shore
Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250–500. Osprey Books, 2006,
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