I gave the idea to Will Ritson to conceal an ISOT'd 2010 Mannin's weirdness from the 1065 British Isles.
The Hadrian's Wall garrison of about legion size (including legionary vexillations and auxiliaries) decides in AD 406 to at Petriana and adjacent forts decides to hole up in the more-defensible and resource-rich West Cumbrian and Furness coastal districts. Mannin is also seized as a guard for their rear and to provide further resources. They set up the buffer-zone (later called the Kingdom of Rheged) based at Petriana, to prevent barbarians from attacking their new heartland.
The idea is that the Romanised garrison retain a Roman nature right up into the early mediaeval period, albeit of the later Roman period rather than the Augustan that most are familiar with. They retain not just the culture of Imperial Rome but also its technology, to make sure that they can keep the barbarians away.
Why don't they contact Rome or New Rome (Constantinople/Byzantium)? Well, they feel that Emperor Honorius has thrown them away and they prefer not to pay Imperial taxgatherers. However, they do clandestinely trade to Iberia and Gaul for olive oil and wine. The wool and fish of Britannia make excellent trade goods, when oysters and hunting dogs prove useless. Later, of course, their metalworking, glassmaking and enamelling skills come in useful...
Do I continue this into a thread?
The Hadrian's Wall garrison of about legion size (including legionary vexillations and auxiliaries) decides in AD 406 to at Petriana and adjacent forts decides to hole up in the more-defensible and resource-rich West Cumbrian and Furness coastal districts. Mannin is also seized as a guard for their rear and to provide further resources. They set up the buffer-zone (later called the Kingdom of Rheged) based at Petriana, to prevent barbarians from attacking their new heartland.
The idea is that the Romanised garrison retain a Roman nature right up into the early mediaeval period, albeit of the later Roman period rather than the Augustan that most are familiar with. They retain not just the culture of Imperial Rome but also its technology, to make sure that they can keep the barbarians away.
Why don't they contact Rome or New Rome (Constantinople/Byzantium)? Well, they feel that Emperor Honorius has thrown them away and they prefer not to pay Imperial taxgatherers. However, they do clandestinely trade to Iberia and Gaul for olive oil and wine. The wool and fish of Britannia make excellent trade goods, when oysters and hunting dogs prove useless. Later, of course, their metalworking, glassmaking and enamelling skills come in useful...
Do I continue this into a thread?
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