Tour Scotland Travel Video Antonine Roman Wall Distance Slab Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of an Antonine Roman Wall Distance Slab on ancestry visit to the National Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. The distance slab from Bridgeness near Edinburgh on the Antonine Wall commemorating the construction of the Wall by the Twentieth Legion. On the left side there is a cavalryman spearing some Britons. On the right side a sacrifice to the goddess of Victory is taking place. Four men watch another man in a toga, probably the legionary commander, who is about to sacrifice a pig, sheep and bull. To accompany the ceremony there is music from a flute player.

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