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Roman battlefield found deep inside Germany
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Quote:Either side would have "policed" the battlefield after a battle. The Romans to keep weapons and metal to make weapons from the enemy and for salvage purposes - The "Barbarians" to reuse the weapons and metal.
I'm not sure about whether the Romans would've done this. It's most likely a punitive or harrassment raid to me and given the estimated small size of the strike force they might as Robert said have been forced to stay no longer at one place thus lacking the time to collect metall.

A second question what comes to mind is if there are any indications what number of enemies they actually fought. It might have been just a little warband, that was destroyed in the aftermath so there were no survivors who couldn't come back to salvage metall and goods.

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Quote:How comes that so many articles now state history has to be rewritten? The typical media hype? Don't want to downplay things, these are very exciting news, but I'd never felt the Roman army of that time had not the capacity to make such incursions, but simply didn't because of lack of political interest.
In fact this does not come as news at all - there are enough literary sources stating that the Romans were operating behind the limes. If this comes as news to someone, than that someone doesn´t know a lot about Roman military history or the sources. OR that someone wants to create a "sensation" which might help in raising funds to get someone employed for evaluating the find... etc... maybe making a new museum like in Kalkriese... etc... Tourists etc...
The material findings are not very spectacular, that is. Any really relevant information might derive from a well made vertical stratigraphy of the area as a result of a large surface excavation. This might help in finding out how the army operated there. Or may not.
thanks ... I thought something along these lines, but hoped I was wrong.
[size=85:2j3qgc52]- Carsten -[/size]
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Re: Roman battlefield found deep inside Germany - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 12-18-2008, 12:48 PM
of course - by Goffredo - 12-19-2008, 03:24 PM
Re: of course - by L C Cinna - 12-19-2008, 04:19 PM
battlefield - by Arminius Primus - 12-20-2008, 08:28 AM
Battlefield Find - by Arminius Primus - 01-05-2009, 06:03 PM
Re: - by P. Clodius Secundus - 01-29-2009, 10:42 AM
Re: Re: - by nithijo - 02-02-2009, 09:59 PM
Re: Roman battlefield found deep inside Germany - by Ross Cowan - 06-24-2009, 12:30 PM

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