Ancient camp. Boot nails and other objects were found at the Hachelbich site, along with soil marks where Roman soldiers once dug a trench to defend their temporary camp. TLDA
Posted on 05/18/2014 6:16:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have confirmed the presence of a long-lost Roman military camp deep in eastern Germany. The 18-hectare site, found near the town of Hachelbich in Thuringia, would have sheltered a Roman legion of up to 5000 troops. Its location in a broad valley with few impediments suggests it was a stopover on the way to invade territory further east...
The Hachelbich site, along with a battlefield near Hannover uncovered in 2008, show... that the Romans were willing to cross their frontier when it suited their political or military needs.
The encampment was discovered in 2010, during routine excavations as part of a road-building project...
On the camp’s northern edge, the soldiers built a gate protected by another trench that projected out past the perimeter...
Additional evidence of an ancient encampment includes traces of eight makeshift bread ovens not far from the camp perimeter and a handful of artifacts, including four nails from the bottom of Roman boots, a piece of horse tackle, and part of a scabbard. The style of these artifacts—and a few radiocarbon dates—place the camp somewhere in the first 2 centuries C.E., too broad a range to be linked to a known specific event in Roman history...
“Now we have the first camp that’s clearly more than a day trip from the edge of the empire,” he says. “It’s no isolated frontier outpost, but something that clearly points to the Elbe River,” hundreds of kilometers deep in German territory.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sciencemag.org ...
Ancient camp. Boot nails and other objects were found at the Hachelbich site, along with soil marks where Roman soldiers once dug a trench to defend their temporary camp. TLDA
Report: Ancient Roman graveyard found in suburban Copenhagen
IHT | October 10, 2007 | Associated Press / Roskilde Dagblad
Posted on 10/11/2007 2:55:59 PM by SunkenCiv
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Treasure trove reveals Iron Age town [Sweden]
Science Nordic | November 23, 2013 | Ingrid Spilde
Posted on 11/29/2013 9:27:14 AM by SunkenCiv
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New Iron Age Sites Discovered in Finland [Roman era]
Popular Archaeology | Friday, January 10, 2014 | unattributed
Posted on 1/12/2014 12:30:28 AM by SunkenCiv
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This makes me say about the Romans what De Gaulle said after Stalingrad. “What a great people!” The Russians? “No, the Germans. They got so far!”
Incredible article!
Drang nach Osten — Latin-style!
German battlefield yields Roman surprises
CNN | 2009 | unattributed
Posted on 5/13/2013 9:09:08 PM by SunkenCiv
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New finds suggest Romans won big North Germany battle [ Maximinus Thrax ]
Monsters and Critics (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | Jean-Baptiste Piggin
Posted on 9/15/2010 11:16:18 PM by SunkenCiv
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:’)
I wholeheartedly agree, although I edited out the what-a-surprise stuff from the text. :’)
Isn’t that is one of those places you take while playing Rome Total War and it doesn’t generate any income?
Game programmers don’t know history? Wow, who knew? :’)
This encampment was simply a staging area for a planned Roman invasion of Russia!
well they did mine silver in the Ore Mts and maybe uranium if there was a market for it (dyes from its oxides, not a Roman Bomb)..
;’)
Was this after the Teutoberg Forest disaster?
"Now write that 100 times or I'll cut your ----- off."
You really have to have studied at least one heavily declined language to appreciate that scene fully. I have to add that the Slavic languages make Greek or Latin look easy.
The Romans' ability to "manage" the Germans already began to break down during the reign of Marcus Aureleus at the end of the second century as attacks on the Empire by the Persians drained both money and troops from the Rhine and Danube frontiers.
As civil wars and wars with Sassanid Persia ravaged the Empire in the third century, this system began to break down completely and large barbarian raids deep into the Empire took place, which resulted in huge "punishment" raids into Germany when the distracted Romans had the opportunity.
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