Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae Traditional Cache
Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae
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A series of caches on a circular walk from Braco, numbered clockwise (dexter) but you can do them anyway you like.
The series cache titles (titulus) and description (genus) reflect the historical Roman importance of this area.
We had to have a wee dig at the Romans, though....after all what did they do for us???
In the field between here (Nether Braco) a river, crop mark has been visible which may indicate as though it may have been the corner of a temporary Roman camp whilst marching to fight against the "Wretched Britons" The nature of these warriors is recorded in the famous Vindolanda Tablets. These date in the main to the very late years of the 1st C AD and precede the period we are concerned with here by only a handful of years.
The excavators considered that many of these tablets are the surviving remains of shoddily burnt rubbish originating from the Commanding Officer house.
Tablet 164 is of particular interest and may have once formed part of an intelligence report. Here it describes the fighting nature of the belligerant tribesmen "Britunculli" - a derogatory term which translates along the lines of "Wretched Britons".
The clear reference to warfare locates these tribesmen as hailing from the troubled area to the north of the Stanegate line on which Vindolanda sat. The local tribes around and to the south of the Stanegate had been succesfully subjugated - and most probably disarmed - for over a generation. Therefore this will in all probability have been a description made of the combatative tribes of southern Scotland. It reads:
"..the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins".
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OBG qbja fybcr
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