The Cohors VI Nerviorum () was an auxiliary unit of Roman Army '' Cohors quinquagenaria peditata'' type attested in the Roman province of

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from the second century to the early fifth century AD.

Service in Britannia

The cohort was based at Greatchesters fort on

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intermittently from the second to the fourth century AD. Inscriptions found at

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on the

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in Scotland state that 480 men of the ''Cohors VI Nerviorum'' served there between 156–162 AD. One of its commanders was a

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named Flavius Betto. The cohort also rebuilt part of the Virosidum fort in present Bainbridge, North Yorkshire around 205-208 AD. In AD 205, whilst stationed at Virosium, the Prefect of the Cohort was Lucius Vinicius Pius.

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