02-09-2010, 07:09 PM
Sure. Actually, it´s all in the excavation reports.
Most books say that the excavation site is 30km2 large. That is correct. What they usually fail to state, is that the area in which around 90% of the objects were found, is roughly 400 by 100 m. Kalkriese 3 cleary states that the excavations did not bring the expected results. The large area is just the prospected area. Basically no finds in other places. So they turned to investigate the soil instead, since they somehow had to justify the enormous costs for the digs and prospections...
From the 400 by 100 m area are several inscriptions naming "COH I" and one "LPA", probably LEGIO I AUVGVSTA, not a legion being part of Varus´troop. Also it turned out recently that the wall continued northwards at its eastern end, closing the gap between the hill and the swamp (B. Dreyer). Had the Romans arrived from the East, they would have faced the backside of the wall.
ALL of the bone pits found so far produced 17(+1) human individuals (sic!), one of which was female. And other than usually published, the dental analysis of the mules showed that they died between Juli and September, which again, amazingly, is quoted in popular literature normally as "september", "fall" or "late summer", although the report in Kalkriese 2 is quite specific about this.
Now, just think... ^^
Most books say that the excavation site is 30km2 large. That is correct. What they usually fail to state, is that the area in which around 90% of the objects were found, is roughly 400 by 100 m. Kalkriese 3 cleary states that the excavations did not bring the expected results. The large area is just the prospected area. Basically no finds in other places. So they turned to investigate the soil instead, since they somehow had to justify the enormous costs for the digs and prospections...
From the 400 by 100 m area are several inscriptions naming "COH I" and one "LPA", probably LEGIO I AUVGVSTA, not a legion being part of Varus´troop. Also it turned out recently that the wall continued northwards at its eastern end, closing the gap between the hill and the swamp (B. Dreyer). Had the Romans arrived from the East, they would have faced the backside of the wall.
ALL of the bone pits found so far produced 17(+1) human individuals (sic!), one of which was female. And other than usually published, the dental analysis of the mules showed that they died between Juli and September, which again, amazingly, is quoted in popular literature normally as "september", "fall" or "late summer", although the report in Kalkriese 2 is quite specific about this.
Now, just think... ^^
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
