Both had special roles within the unit. Fuscinus’s epitaph says he was an ex-centurion, an officer who led a group of 80 soldiers called a century. Romanus was an actuarius, a sort of clerk or accountant employed to handle the pay of the soldiers and the finances of the fort. Fuscinus died at 55, while Romanus died at 25. It looks like Romanus’ epitaph was carved at a later point by another person: the carving is less even and with different letter forms. Due to this, and their shared family name, they are believed to be father and son. What makes the tombstone so significant is that it says that Romanus was killed in the fort by ‘the enemy’. This is a very rare piece of direct evidence for an attack on a Romano-British fort by the local population. Was it the same attack evidenced by the sling bullets scattered around the fort, or another one? It’s impossible to say.

We don’t know exactly when Fuscinus and Romanus died. Based on the letter forms and on Fuscinus and Romanus’ military titles, historians think the tombstone probably dates to later in the Roman period, i.e. the 3rd or 4th centuries AD.​