Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

A few of points here

I think you've made these points before?

The North African recruitment and pottery relating to the 20th was later 2nd century, after a detachment was supposedly sent on expedition there during the Mauretanian war of Antoninus Pius.

[Steve Malone's prosopographic paper on XX VV discusses Quietus, primus pilus of the twentieth, 'sent with an army on a Mauretanian campaign by the emperor Antoninus Augustus' (p.97) - but Malone says there's no indication that troops from the legion were involved. He also says (p.37) that "what we know of normal patterns of recruitment... would render it most unlikely that men of African origin would be recruited into the legion"]