Late Roman military equipment has been discovered in the town, including an official "cingulum militare" belt buckle made in Pannonia for Roman frontier units. Alongside Roman military equipment 4th and early 5th century Germanic weaponry has been found alongside Germanic domestic objects in the Late Roman town, which has been interpreted by archaeologist Philip Crummy as perhaps representing Saxon "foederati" mercenaries living and settling in the town during this period, several decades before the Saxon migrations of the mid to late 5th century.