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COURTESY ADAM PRINS

MILITARY CEMETERY. Two cemeteries served the Roman outpost at Legio. In keeping with Roman funerary practice, most burials at Legio were cremations. In such cases, ashes were gathered into covered pots such as this one, deposited in a cave to the northwest of the camp. Bodies of some legionaries, however, were interred intact, likely reflecting the burial preferences of soldiers from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds.