When Stilicho stripped the British garrison of its best units in 401-402 AD to defend Italy against Alaric and the Visigoths, the Picts and Scots immediately resumed raiding. Claudian records the renewed barbarian pressure. The British population, now effectively without a professional army, began the process of taking defence into their own hands — the origin of the post-Roman warlord tradition.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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