Full Version: Roman troops in Thuringia? You're currently viewing a stripped down version of our content. View the full version with proper formatting. Pages: 1 2. No further informations seem to have been given except for a press-conference on tomorrows Friday. It's too late for posting the exact time now, anyway -- but maybe we can get a proper press-release.
Flavivs Aetivs. I'll have to wait till the press-releases containing more specific?! There have been few accompanying finds yet that could date that camp precisely. First supicions, however go towards the Drusus campaign of 9 BC. The camp is sited in the course of the modern road between Hachelbich and Goellingen near river Wipper and surfaced in the course of preliminary surveillance in the course of rebuilding County Road L Trenches by the charasteric shape of a Roman fossa have bee spotted running both in the east and the south for ca.
A continuation of those trenches in east and south would yield about 18 ha of internal area. Inside the area of surveillances also a System of baking ovens with 8 individual ovens, a "working pit" and a gate have been found so far. The gate is of that "titulum type" Rem. Ist seems that the have not scrutinized the finds of Fittings and hobnails yet, whichare also mentioned in that note from MDR.
Maybe the shapes of "Augustean" hobnails may not make that too easy I would guess firsthand. Hope the links works -- it did so with me. Greez Simplex. I did a "quick'n'dirrty" Translation of the "offischal" press-release: Roman troops in Thuringia It's after many years of search that we have finally suceeded in proving the presence of roman troops in Middle Germany.
Thurigian Country Office for the preservation of Monuments. It started off with excavations en suite a routine measure of preliminary surveillance before rebuilding a road. Geophysical and Aerial Prospection of the area supplemented by surveillance by foot were employed for further research. The installation found as it has been researched by now strictly follows suit to the schematics according to ancient literature as well as archeological finding from the provinces and frontarlier regions of the Roman Empire: A trench i.
