Quick Question & Answers.

[Kev]

What was the lower legal age limit for a young man to be accepted into the Roman legions 

[garethj]

16 ?

[Roman (Ray)]

13 is my guess.

[Kev]

close guys.

[Mike]

11

[Kev]

mike 

[rookypair]

17 ?

[Kev]

correct Rookypair 
The lower legal age limit for entry into the legions was 17 years of age. It is known, though, that younger men, perhaps in a time of crisis, or deceiving the recruiting officer about their true age, managed to join the legions. It was a dangerous life and only about half (50%) of recruits survived their 25 or more years of service to final discharge.
Those soldiers that did survive generally preferred to stay in the province in which they had been stationed and had come to know well, sometimes having established families and even business connections there.
Sometimes the emperors established 'veteran colonies' in the provinces and a discharged soldier could accept a plot of land in lieu of his gratuity.

[Kev]

and one to finish tonight's quiz
who's this famous chap.................
                                                                                         

[Mike]

winston nomad 

[nobby]

 

[Kev]

correct Winston Nomad.

[Kev]

Wales is regarded as a Celtic nation. The whole "Celtic thing" is pretty unclear to most historians, as the Celtic tradition is very much based on oral history - however, most historians agree that the Celts first settled on the land mass now known as the United Kingdom in what time period   i will take a 100 years each way 

[Chef Geoff]

480BC

[Mike]

480BC

which month