06-19-2014, 11:54 AM
....they're "comin' in" hard & fast now 8-) ....
Yesterday a press-note from the "Archäologischer Park Carnuntum"/"The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute" made it official that one of the oldest roman camps in Austria
has been found under the roman settlement outside the western gate of the walled roman town of Carnuntum/Deutsch Altenburg (Austria) on the Danube.
No exact data was given concerning the exact date of that installation, but since it lay "well buried" under the oldest strata of roman civilian buildings in that area,
the researchers reconed that it must bee decidedly older than these. The camp stretches up to the banks of river Danube, enclosing an area pf ca. 57,6 ha.
(....giving place to the encampment of ca. 3 legions, as you may have figuered out. :wink: )
The finds so far suggest that the "ordinary" legionaries may have been housed in tents rather than in solid barracks.
Links:
"Da Pressetext in Englisch" :
http://carnuntum.7reasons.net/TXT/PK_Car...nglish.pdf
The pics for "Da Fun & Games" Dept. or plain simply mo' betta info :
http://carnuntum.7reasons.net/
Some more interesting stuff from Austrian archeologists:
http://archpro.lbg.ac.at/austria-carnunt...-landscape
Greez
Simplex
I'm afraid Dr. Mike Bishop's website on Roman Legionary camp ( BUY his book, will ya'?!
)
might need to be updated now.
They say: it is "six football-fields" ---- well , I didn't know the romans DID play football. New findings ?! :whistle:
Yesterday a press-note from the "Archäologischer Park Carnuntum"/"The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute" made it official that one of the oldest roman camps in Austria
has been found under the roman settlement outside the western gate of the walled roman town of Carnuntum/Deutsch Altenburg (Austria) on the Danube.
No exact data was given concerning the exact date of that installation, but since it lay "well buried" under the oldest strata of roman civilian buildings in that area,
the researchers reconed that it must bee decidedly older than these. The camp stretches up to the banks of river Danube, enclosing an area pf ca. 57,6 ha.
(....giving place to the encampment of ca. 3 legions, as you may have figuered out. :wink: )
The finds so far suggest that the "ordinary" legionaries may have been housed in tents rather than in solid barracks.
Links:
"Da Pressetext in Englisch" :
http://carnuntum.7reasons.net/TXT/PK_Car...nglish.pdf
The pics for "Da Fun & Games" Dept. or plain simply mo' betta info :
http://carnuntum.7reasons.net/
Some more interesting stuff from Austrian archeologists:
http://archpro.lbg.ac.at/austria-carnunt...-landscape
Greez
Simplex
I'm afraid Dr. Mike Bishop's website on Roman Legionary camp ( BUY his book, will ya'?!
)might need to be updated now.
They say: it is "six football-fields" ---- well , I didn't know the romans DID play football. New findings ?! :whistle:
Siggi K.
