Note 394 — WAS THE ROMAN ARMY PROVIDED WITH MEDICAL OFFICERS?

According to Horsley, it was probably under the reign of Marcus Aurelius that the Tungrian Cohort became stationed at Castle-steeds, in Cumberland, where they erected an altar to Jupiter. Lastly (he adds), this Cohort settled at Housesteads, where we have six or seven of their inscriptions under four or five different commanders. Here they seem to have continued till the lowest time of the empire. The Notitia places this Cohort at Borcovicus (Housesteads).—Britannia Romana, p. 89.