06-17-2008, 05:06 AM
Northeast Greece.... Horses buried in pairs..... Bronze onamentation....
Sounds suspicously like an article I ran across while researching my Carrus design. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_ar ... 2003_26445
(not sure if the link will work, but you can just Google "Ekathimerini Roman carts".
There was mention of other mounds/carts awaiting excavation. AFAIK these were four-wheeled funerary carts with no military application. For my work, the most interesting evidence this dig provided was the evidence of iron axles. Probably more important in the greater context of Roman transportation was the possibility of a pivoting front axle. Sounds like it may be another case of a journalist completely misinterpreting a dig-site press release and adding in commonly abused words. Leading the general public further astray and getting us history geeks all excited for nothing. How many times have they called anything that hurls projectiles without powder a ""catapult" and anything with armor, tracks, or a gun a "tank".
Sounds suspicously like an article I ran across while researching my Carrus design. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_ar ... 2003_26445
(not sure if the link will work, but you can just Google "Ekathimerini Roman carts".
There was mention of other mounds/carts awaiting excavation. AFAIK these were four-wheeled funerary carts with no military application. For my work, the most interesting evidence this dig provided was the evidence of iron axles. Probably more important in the greater context of Roman transportation was the possibility of a pivoting front axle. Sounds like it may be another case of a journalist completely misinterpreting a dig-site press release and adding in commonly abused words. Leading the general public further astray and getting us history geeks all excited for nothing. How many times have they called anything that hurls projectiles without powder a ""catapult" and anything with armor, tracks, or a gun a "tank".
P. Clodius Secundus (Randi Richert), Legio III Cyrenaica
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
