Calleva Outpost

The Calleva Outpost was an Anglo-Saxon outpost in the northeast of Hampshire, England. It was once the capital of the Atrebates tribe and later a former Roman town. While a large part of the ruins remained untouched, the Saxons made camp in the town's amphitheater, while archers were stationed on top of the buildings nearby.

History

In the 870s, the Viking Eivor Varinsdottir visited the outpost and came across several skeletons in one of the buildings. The bodies belonged to several members of the Legio IX Hispana who had remained in Great Britain follow the Roman exodus in the early 5th century and they had left a note listing their names. Eivor also recovered a Roman artifact near the skeletons.^[1]

Later on, Eivor proceeded inwards and eliminated the Saxons in the amphitheater, looting a tungsten ingot from soldier's body as well as the Drekar Shield from a chest in an underground chamber.^[2]