03-21-2002, 11:05 AM
Hi Dan,<br>
I'v been reading your posts with great intrest. However, I'd like to make a few suggestions:<br>
<br>
- the fortification.<br>
I can only agree with Tim, the missing defensive ditch is very damning, don't you think? Even when created in haste, Roman soldiers constructed every wall by digging a ditch at the same time, so how would you explain they did not do so now? And even if this were an outpost, it would have been surrounded by a defensive circuit, right? So where's that one gone? Besides, it is unlike any other known Roman wall. Yes, that includes Hadrian's and the Antonine walls<br>
<br>
-the site.<br>
Actually, I'm intriqued to bits by your hints! Apparently, you know of (a) site(s) where loads more finds have turned up. Darn the bombshell - hy not tell us and get it over with?! :-)<br>
But I agree with Tim again, apart from this one being the main and only thing, it *could* still be a last stand for a breakaway part of the main group. How sure re you of the date of the finds at these 'much more eastwards' site(s)? A different solution might be that this was not the Varus battle, but an undocumented one, or else your mystery site(s) might be.<br>
<br>
-the mules<br>
Not meaning to continue flogging a dead mule, could it not be possible that the attackers first built the wall, allowed the main train to get there, and be stopped in a traffic-jam, and *then* mount the ambush? Finds east of that point could be explained by the lenght of the marching column.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Robert Vermaat<br>
Vortigern Studies<br>
www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/<br>
Wansdyke Project 21<br>
www.wansdyke21.org.uk/<br>
Robert's Arthurian Collection<br>
www.geocities.com/vortige...grarth.htm <p></p><i></i>
I'v been reading your posts with great intrest. However, I'd like to make a few suggestions:<br>
<br>
- the fortification.<br>
I can only agree with Tim, the missing defensive ditch is very damning, don't you think? Even when created in haste, Roman soldiers constructed every wall by digging a ditch at the same time, so how would you explain they did not do so now? And even if this were an outpost, it would have been surrounded by a defensive circuit, right? So where's that one gone? Besides, it is unlike any other known Roman wall. Yes, that includes Hadrian's and the Antonine walls<br>
<br>
-the site.<br>
Actually, I'm intriqued to bits by your hints! Apparently, you know of (a) site(s) where loads more finds have turned up. Darn the bombshell - hy not tell us and get it over with?! :-)<br>
But I agree with Tim again, apart from this one being the main and only thing, it *could* still be a last stand for a breakaway part of the main group. How sure re you of the date of the finds at these 'much more eastwards' site(s)? A different solution might be that this was not the Varus battle, but an undocumented one, or else your mystery site(s) might be.<br>
<br>
-the mules<br>
Not meaning to continue flogging a dead mule, could it not be possible that the attackers first built the wall, allowed the main train to get there, and be stopped in a traffic-jam, and *then* mount the ambush? Finds east of that point could be explained by the lenght of the marching column.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Robert Vermaat<br>
Vortigern Studies<br>
www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/<br>
Wansdyke Project 21<br>
www.wansdyke21.org.uk/<br>
Robert's Arthurian Collection<br>
www.geocities.com/vortige...grarth.htm <p></p><i></i>
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
