ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the military developments from the Augustan period to the end of the first century, particularly the superficiality of the Pax Romana that was perpetuated by the successors of the princeps. Britain's gold resources in Wales were in the territory of the Demetae, who were apparently 'pro-Roman', blocked by the hostile Silures to the east, and it was not possible to subjugate them until the Flavian period. Claudius was the most active of the Julio-Claudian emperors in the sphere of public building in Rome, the Italian regions, and the provinces, most likely for ideological reasons, seeking to align himself with Augustus and Tiberius and shake off the spectre of his predecessor. The total number of inscriptions in the western empire by reign in the first century is as follows: Augustus, 14, Tiberius, 23, Claudius, 19, Nero, 7, Vespasian, 21, Titus, 9, Domitian, 10, and Nerva, 9.
