Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare answers podcast.

I'm Jasper Ortiz, I'm the editor of Ancient Orpher Magazine, and with me is Murray Dam.

He's the assistant editor.

And today we are going to talk about Roman wedges, specifically I think infantry wedges.

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Wedges, Murray.

Well, the short answer to the Roman wedge is that indeed it did exist.

It was called a Cuneus, C-U-N-E-U-S, literally a wedge.

And it's an infantry formation that we find at various points in time throughout the history

of Roman warfare. We find it, the asker of the question was specifically asking about the tactics

used against Budica in the revolt in Britannia in the 60s, but it's also, we find it at other

points in time being used in various campaigns right through until the fourth century.

And, you know, there's a, in the last episode, I think I mentioned a group of 300 Romans who, after the Battle of Adrian Opel, are fighting the Goths as they try and besiege the city of

Adrian Opel itself.

And they form a wedge and disappear into the Goths and

are never seen again. So it's a wedge last stand just to segue between our topics. So these are,

you know, and it's an interesting one because when it's mentioned by Amiensis and by several other

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