He could march 20 miles a day, wearing all his armour and equipment ... This modern painting shows Roman soldiers at Birdoswald Fort (Hadrian's Wall). A centurion watches men training.

Archaeologists found the skeletons of 19 Roman soldiers, complete with all their weapons and armor — including the scutum — in a tunnel under a fortification tower. While these soldiers may ...

Roman army re-enactors wearing armour and holding javelins ... The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’. Image caption, Artillery soldiers fired giant catapults called ...