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The museum will open on Saturday, May 29, unless Covid restrictions change. A spokesperson said: The period of lockdown has also given volunteers the opportunity to upgrade the museum social media. An in-house team have been working on our website www.maltonmuseum.co,uk and our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages so we are better able to keep in touch with all our friends. Please follow us on any of those for information on dates and times of all our events. Work is also going ahead on a smart new on-line event booking system for the start of the season. We look forward to welcoming both old and new friends to our refreshed Malton Horse Power and Roman and local history timeline exhibitions. ....
They marauded on to British shores 43 years after the birth of Christ, founded the city of York - and then vanished from the historical record. The mystery of what happened to the Roman Army s Ninth Legion, who came to these shores with Emperor Claudius s invasion, continues to vex experts. The last mention of the legion, which was made up of 5,500 officers and men, is on a gateway in York, which dates from AD108. The theory dramatised in children s book The Eagle of the Ninth and film The Eagle, that the soldiers were annihilated in modern-day Scotland, had fallen out of favour. ....