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I think you mean Numidians.
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At the time of the invasion of Britain the Roman armies would have included people from all over the empire, much more so than actual Romans proper. We are talking about a time when even many of the emperors were themselves foreigners, like Septimius Severus, a Libyan who actually died in Britain while planning a military campaign to Scotland. We have a very good idea of this from surviving Roman-era data on the composition of the legions stationed in Britain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=h...rs, Thracians, Dalmatians, Frisians,"&f=false
"The Notitia Imperii shows us that bodies of Syrians, Cilicians, Spaniards, Moors, Thracians, Dalmatians, Frisians, & c., formed the military colonists of the stations in Britain ; and when even the emperors themselves were often not of Italian birth, and the most trusted officers and governors provincials or even barbarians, we have no reason to suppose that any notable proportion of genuine Roman blood found its way to this country."
In the first invasion of Britain there was no Illyrians, thracians, alpine or north-italians people in the Roman legions, as these places where still independent from Roman rule. so southern, central italian plus iberians would have been the vast majority that went into britain.