Roman battlefield found deep inside Germany

[caiusbeerquitius]

if the Roman items outweigh the Germanic items (as seems to be the case here) it would go against scientific principles to assume, contrary to evidence, that the items were from a Germanic army regardless.

1. I think methodologically one easily falls for the "Methode Kossinna" in this case.
2. From all the items I have seen from this excavation less than ten can be certainly of Roman origin. That is the tent peg (?), the pilum shank, the cart piece, the coin, the Hippo-sandal, the fragmentary Thekenbeschlag, the axe, and the coin. As has been pointed out by Simplex, the objects may be Streufunde as well. I think there is so far by far not enough information to actually draw certain conclusions about whether Romans were involved or not. AFAIK there is no certain / working typology for spearheads, arrowheads and javelinheads etc. which could actually tell us which objects are clearly Roman or Germanic. Even metallurgical analysis is difficult in this case, for knowing where the iron comes from does not tell us who used it.