The eagle was discovered on 0ctober 9 1866 by the Reverend J.G. However, fiction and archaeology tell very different stories of the eagle’s history. The story ends with the eagle being safely returned to Calleva. Twenty years later Marcus Aquila, son af Flavius, sets out to clear his father’s name and discover what happened to the legion and the eagle. In the story, the eponymous eagle is the imperial standard of the fearsome Ninth Legion of the Roman army, led by Flavius Aquila. The legion journey north to Caledonia (Scotland) to tame the northern tribes, but never return and the eagle is lost. The film was based in a children’s story, ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’written by Rosemary Sutcliff in 1954.
Most recently, the eagle has served as the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, ‘The Eagle’. Silchester’s most famous find, the eagle, has been sparking imaginations since its discovery as archaeologists, scholars and authors try to get to the bottom of where the eagle came from and what it was for.
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