Unfortunately this … A BBC TV serial of the book was aired in 1977. A stamp of the Ninth legion from the fortress at Caerleon in Wales. The Eagle of the Ninth is a children's novel … The eagle was found in the forum basilica, between two layers of burnt material. The emblem of the first legion is not known, but since it was a Caesarian unit, the badge may have been a bull. The Curious Disappearance of a Roman Legion (2018) That and the mysterious fate of the Ninth Spanish Legion… ), Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire (1971) 71-80; Duncan Campbell, The Fate of the Ninth. Archaeologists found inscriptions relating to the Ninth Legion in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The Eagle of the Ninth: The children's novel centred around the disappearance of Rome's most famous legion. Butler (ed. Joyce during his excavations of Calleva Atrebatum. The legion then helped … The last known, recorded activity of the 9 th Legion in Britain was the construction of a new and improved stone fortress in York in 108/109 AD. The Ninth was formed in 65BC and fought in Hispania and Gaul before taking part in Claudius's invasion of Britain in AD43. The eagle was discovered on 0ctober 9 1866 by the Reverend J.G. A piece of evidence indicating the loss of a legion in Britain is an eagle, alleged to be military that was found in Silchester. E.B. His personal odyssey can end only with the rescue of the eagle … After that, the 9 th Legion simply vanishes from the historical record. Joyce believed that the eagle was the imperial standard of a Roman legion and that during a desperate last stand. The most famous novel to deal with the legion’s story – The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, published in 1954 – is one of the most celebrated children’s books of the 20th century, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. Birley, "The fate of the ninth legion", in: R.M. This has been claimed to be the lost standard of the 9th. The discovery included tile stamps dated to AD 120 and a bronze pendant with silver plating with the inscription ‘LEG HISP IX’ at the back. The fate of the legion has been the subject of considerable research and speculation. The Ninth Legion's mysterious disappearance has made it a popular subject for historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction. The Ninth Legion ‘Hispana’, the lost legion of Rome that marched into the murky fog of history and into legend. One theory proposes that the legion was wiped out campaigning in northern Britain after AD 108 by the northern tribes, which was popularised in a novel called “The Eagle of the Ninth”. In Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, a young Roman officer, Marcus Flavius Aquila, is trying to recover the Eagle standard of his father's legion … And it was this bronze eagle from which Rosemary Sutcliff made her children's story The Eagle of the Ninth. The discovery of the eagle. The Roman Eagle Found In Silchester Hampshire. Photo: York Museums Trust / CC BY-SA 4.0. Literature. Journeying beyond Hadrian’s Wall, Marcus learns the truth about how the Ninth was destroyed, and in doing so stumbles upon the legion’s emblematic bronze eagle, now in enemy hands. The nature of its disappearance in the early second century AD - if it ever truly disappeared at all – has sparked a wealth of interest from the media and academia, as a result it is now immortalised in thousands of words of print and rolls of film.