Legio II Augusta - 2nd and 3rd Centuries

2nd and 3rd Centuries

In 122, II Augusta helped to build Hadrian's Wall.

In 142, II Augusta helped to build the Antonine Wall and are recorded on The Bridgeness Slab.

In 196, II Augusta supported the claim for the purple of the governor of Britannia, Clodius Albinus, who was defeated by Septimius Severus. In occasion of the Scottish campaign of Severus, the Second moved to Carpow, to return to Caerleon under Alexander Severus.

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