05-05-2006, 07:30 AM
Salve (again),
Robinson's dating of the Itallic D was based purely on his hypothesis that it had been dropped from a ferry, and once the bridge was built in 83AD, no more soldiers fell off barges with all their kit. Since the current trend in archaeology is to believe that most military equipment was deposited for religious reasons, the Itallic D could have been later as well.
Sorry, opened a whole can of worms here.
Celer.
Robinson's dating of the Itallic D was based purely on his hypothesis that it had been dropped from a ferry, and once the bridge was built in 83AD, no more soldiers fell off barges with all their kit. Since the current trend in archaeology is to believe that most military equipment was deposited for religious reasons, the Itallic D could have been later as well.
Sorry, opened a whole can of worms here.
Celer.
Marcus Antonius Celer/Julian Dendy.
