12-17-2008, 02:11 PM
Hi y' all:
Further References: (Update ??)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... %2C00.html
In English
http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft ... 56123.html
In German.
It says (among other things)
-A victorius army of about 1000 Romans (that has beeen said earlier already)
-The area is called "Harzhorn" referring to the shape of the line of hills there running towards the western boundary of the Harz.
-Henning Hassmann from the Landesamt für Denkmalschutz is referring to ancient contemporary sources claiming that Maximinus Thrax was undertaking "sprees" deep ("several hundred Kilometres") into the Barbaricum.
-The excavation site where more than 600 finds were made stretches
1500 to 500 metres.
-Found were aside the things already mentioned in the contributions above some coins under them 1 piece well-used from the times of Commodus.
(Together with the sheath some of you discussed, this is one of the finds that constituted the thesis, that this battle could have taken place in the 3rd cent. AD)
-It's Günther Moosbauer from Osnabück University who assumed that the Romans had won. ( I don't remember if that has already beeen attributed to him)
-The fact that the weapons were left "on site" still riddles the excavators and an international circle of scientists/scholars will be constituted to discuss the "open" questions.
-The excavations will be resumed next year to further clarify who actually won this battle . (!)
To quote Henning Hassmann, only through three-dimensional assessment of the finds it will be possible to reconstruct the battle more precisely.
Greez
Simplex
Further References: (Update ??)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... %2C00.html
In English
http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft ... 56123.html
In German.
It says (among other things)
-A victorius army of about 1000 Romans (that has beeen said earlier already)
-The area is called "Harzhorn" referring to the shape of the line of hills there running towards the western boundary of the Harz.
-Henning Hassmann from the Landesamt für Denkmalschutz is referring to ancient contemporary sources claiming that Maximinus Thrax was undertaking "sprees" deep ("several hundred Kilometres") into the Barbaricum.
-The excavation site where more than 600 finds were made stretches
1500 to 500 metres.
-Found were aside the things already mentioned in the contributions above some coins under them 1 piece well-used from the times of Commodus.
(Together with the sheath some of you discussed, this is one of the finds that constituted the thesis, that this battle could have taken place in the 3rd cent. AD)
-It's Günther Moosbauer from Osnabück University who assumed that the Romans had won. ( I don't remember if that has already beeen attributed to him)
-The fact that the weapons were left "on site" still riddles the excavators and an international circle of scientists/scholars will be constituted to discuss the "open" questions.
-The excavations will be resumed next year to further clarify who actually won this battle . (!)
To quote Henning Hassmann, only through three-dimensional assessment of the finds it will be possible to reconstruct the battle more precisely.
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
