How did the Roman Empire supply its very large frontier garrisons?

Maintaining provision was key to the success of Roman imperialism, but we still know remarkably little about how Romans soldiers on the frontiers were supplied and the impact this had on the provincial countryside and its population.  ‘Feeding the Roman Army in Britain’, a Leverhulme Trust funded project, seeks to address these issues using a multi-isotope approach applied to domestic fauna in three frontier regions of Britannia: South Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall.  This lecture explores the networks of supply and husbandry strategies that supported the army in these frontier zones and the roles that different sites and regions had in military supply.