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Clearly 600 finds are not quite the same as proof? :? roll:
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[url:miw0r6ew]http://www.stern.de/wissenschaft/natur/:R%F6mer-Schlachtfeld-Arch%E4ologen-Waffen/654972.html[/url]
Archaeologists discover Germanic Weapons (to be presented when preserved)
- 200 new finds during the last month (making it a total of 800)
- First "real" digs are going to start in March in cooperation with FU Berlin
- Big(gus) Dig(gus) sheduled for the summer
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Update:
Press releases (Source: Petra Lönne on April 14th) have it that there have been further finds and findings on the excavation site since the onset of further excavations on March 23rd. In addition to futher finds, explorationary digs have shown site to be larger than expected. (Nearly 2 kms long "several hundred meter" wide).
Sources:
[url:3riegns0]http://www.welt.de/die-welt/article3557825/Roemer-Schlachtfeld-noch-groesser-als-angenommen.html[/url]
[url:3riegns0]http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/wissen/article1073224/Archaeologie_Funde_auf_Schlachtfeld.html[/url]
[url:3riegns0]http://www.netzeitung.de/wissenschaft/1326737.html[/url]
[url:3riegns0]http://www1.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/schlachtfeld106.html[/url]
[url:3riegns0]http://www.stern.de/wissenschaft/mensch/:Arch%E4ologischer-Fund-Niedersachsen-R%F6mer-Schlachtfeld/660987.html[/url]
Most of these newsarticles here have nearly the same "wording", the last two URLs giving some more information by mentioning that the new finds will be on exhibition at a press conference on Friday,17th together with a presentation of a movie on the excavations.
I'll try and further keep an eye on this.
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Thanks for keeping us updated, Siggi. I'm sure there's much more to come!
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Thanks, too. :wink:
PS: I´ve forgotten a lot of German since I was living in Freiburg :evil: :oops:
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Astonishing how well preserved some of those spearheads and pugio finds are! The pugio almost looks like one you'd buy today from any one of several suppliers. The enamel dots are missing, but other than that--pristine!
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Oh the conference is in 15 Minutes.
So maybe in some hours, we get some more Info…
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...maybe some other board-members like Marian may be there, too.
Would be a nice feat to get firsthand information here.
(Not like me here, just watching the press :wink: )
Greez
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Sorry, folks
I seemed to have overlooked this one here:
[url:67unt5es]http://cdl.niedersachsen.de/blob/images/C54857945_L20.pdf[/url]
Same wording as the Link before but with the intention of inviting people to todays
"Informationary Event" at : Auetalhalle, Am Edelhof 5; D-37589 Kalefeld-Willershausen ,
starting at 19:00 CEST. So Sasha (and others) may have to opportunity of getting there before it's "too late".
Among other things they will be presenting the book "Denkmalpflege In Niedersachsen" Heft 01/09 there.
No trace of a published press review on their press review as yet. :roll:
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Bring your cameras, please, those lucky ones who can go! :wink:
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Ok here the first new article:
http://www.stern.de/wissenschaft/mensch ... 61232.html
Nothing new except the Battlefield is datet to 230 A.D. …?
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.....and now they're comin' "thick 'n fast" !
[url:1aglxy1g]http://www.dernewsticker.de/news.php?id=104919[/url]
[url:1aglxy1g]http://www.main-netz.de/nachrichten/kultur/dpa/kulturwelt/art7127,752484[/url]
[url:1aglxy1g]http://www.hna.de/breakingnews/00_20090417150500_Kalefeld___zeitliche_Einsortierung_der_Roemers.html[/url]
[url:1aglxy1g]http://www1.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/schlachtfeld108.html[/url]
The quintessence of these partly contradictionary features (as far as I can make sense out of it :roll: ):
1.Coinage so found far during the last few weeks: Denars all in all 6 found: 1 (?) from Caracalla (211-217),2 from Elagabal (218-222),2 from Severus Alexander (223-235)
Coinage Expert Berger (Frankfurt) dates the denars from Severus Alexander as manufactured between 222 and 226 and the battle between 230 and 235. (Ed.: ?!)
2. Dr. Petra Lönne also presented an Arrowtip (3rd cent ?), also stating that the battlefield (as already said) spans 2000 x 500 Metres approximately, but may be even larger (longer than 2kms ?).
3. According to Prof. Michael Meyer: parts of ceramic pottery, charcoal and pig-bones suggest the existence of a cooking-place (on the hill ?).
4. There is also a lance-tip mentioned, but I'm not sure whether taht might be confused with the "Arrow-tip" .
More eventually tomorrow, when there hopefully will be more press-releases...
...."off to see the wizard"
Greez
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Quote:3. According to Prof. Michael Meyer: parts of ceramic pottery, charcoal and pig-bones suggest the existence of a cooking-place (on the hill ?).
Or maybe a sacrificial site? Sensational! I already see a cooking site museum coming, and after three or four years evidence will harden that it indeed was rather a site of a suovetaurilia which in fact took place 5 m more in the north of the actual museum site....
No, just kidding... :mrgreen:
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Cooking place on the hilltop, where all those nasty boltheads and arrowtips came in - bad cook?! :wink:
(see: Asterix the Legionary)
The "lancehead" and the "arrowhead" are the same - and germanic.
The sixth denarius is another Elagabalus i guess?
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