Roman camp at Hedemünden near Göttingen.

[PhilusEstilius]

The slave chains from neck to wrists I find interesting, for some years ago with my metal detector I found a small statue that was a seated figure with neck wrists and ankles all fixed in one. This kind of figure is very common however all types of them have two holes in them, one that goes from side to side thro' the waist while the other goes from the back of the neck to the bottom. An interesting aspect of these holes is that where they cross they are offset by half their diameter, therefore when I filed a groove in a 4 inch wire nail and fed it thro' one of the holes I could put another 4 inch wire nail thro' the other hole and the two nails became locked together. It makes one consider if all of this type of statue were more than just a decorative figure or did they have the function of locking shall we say slave chains.