Plot
In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.
Cast
as Marcus Flavius Aquila
as Esca
as Marcus' father
as Aquila
as Cottia
as Liathan
as Stephanos
as Guern
as Claudius
as Aulus
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 4, 1977
Last Aired Date
October 9, 1977
Production Companies
BBC Scotland
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
6
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This was made back in the day when the BBC would produce a Sunday evening serialisation of a well known story. This time it's Rosemary Sutcliff's tale of the search by "Aquila" (Anthony Higgins) and his recently spared slave "Esca" (Christian Rodska) for the lost eagle of the ninth Roman legion. His father was one of it's, now rather disgraced, commanders and when "Aquila" hears rumour that this …