The Vetonnes were a Hispanic tribe from the Roman province of Lusitania, who inhabited the upper Tagus valley to the immediate south of Salamanca in western Spain. This unit is first attested in Britain on the tombstone of one Lucius Vitellius Tancinus, a trooper in the ala from Bath. The tombstone of Candidus, another trooper from Brecon Gaer in south Wales, has been dated on stylistic grounds to the late-first / early-second centuries, and suggest that they were the first garrison unit following its construction in the mid-70's. By the late-second century the regiment had been moved to Bowes, and other undated inscriptions from Binchester, probably dating from the early-third century, attest their continued presence in the north of England.
