12-22-2008, 11:50 PM
Quote:"-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"
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.
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Further north the "barbarians" would happily sacrifice equipment from even larger forces, so I don't think salvaging for reuse was an imperative
for the barbs
Maybe the victorious force - whoever it might be - was pressed for time
and couldn't search the the battlefield as thoroughly as they may have wished.
Anyway is the lack of germanic equipment so far puzzling.
Anyway is the lack of germanic equipment puzzling
Soren Larsen aka Nithijo/Wagnijo