Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman artifact. The small item — possibly buried as an offering 1,800 years ago ...

so it's likely that it came north of Hadrian's Wall on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the empire's northernmost frontier. "It's difficult to say exactly why the brooch was ...

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

“There are a few plausible scenarios,” Barbour said. The brooch likely arrived in Scotland “on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s northernmost frontier ...