🎧 SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS IN SCOTLAND

Simon Elliott

04/02/2019

A recording from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018

Septimius Severus was one of the great Roman warrior emperors yet this fighting general and emperor, born in the heat of North Africa, died in the freezing cold of a Yorkshire winter in AD 211. In this talk, archaeologist and historian Simon Elliott explains how and why, despite a massive army, he failed to conquer Scotland.

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