t the start of Hadrian’s reign, Britannia was restless, and “the Britons could not be kept under Roman sway” (, “Hadrian,” 5.2). The Brigantes of northern, a British military campaign or taskforce. One ( X, 5829 = 2726) states that Titus Pontius Sabinus was “overseer () of three milliary [3,000 men of] detachments () from VII in Hispania, VIII in Germania Superior, and XXII in Germania Superior, on the British Taskforce”. Another ( XI, 5632 = 2735) reports that Marcus Maenius Agrippa was “chosen by the late Emperor Hadrian and sent on the British Taskforce”. An inscription from Vindolanda in Northern England, dated stylistically to the early second century AD, commemorates Titus Annius, centurion of I , who “was killed in the war”. Roman bronze coins ( 2 577a and 2 577b), showing a dejected-looking personification of Britannia seated on a pile of rocks, were minted in AD 119.
