The ancient Roman Empire's most northerly frontier was located in northern Britain in what is now called Northumberland. To keep out the marauding northern tribes, the Roman  Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a wall.

This partially animated Roman Comic cartoon strip tells a  story about that wall.  Some seventy-three miles long the Wall stretched from Bowness in the west to Wallsend-on-Tyne (Segedunum) fort) in the east. A few miles short of the coast, the Roman Fort of Arbeia on the south side of the River Tyne provided some cover. However on the north side of the river the  gap was guarded by a small fort, thought to have been located on the site now occupied by Seaton Delaval Hall, in Seaton Sluice, near Whitley Bay. Of course this is hotly disputed by established Historians, but the author has found evidence to support his claim from an old postcard dug up in his back garden.                                                                                           

The  Fort was manned by legionnaires from the Victory V Legion ( not to be confused with a well known lozenge), supported by Auxiliaries drawn from local tribesmen called Bits whose village  was situated near the Harbour at Seaton Sluice.