06-08-2010, 07:03 PM
......it seems that reenactors of gaulic celts have been lacking an essential part of equipment ...... hock:
Here:
http://www.archaeologie-koblenz.de/
>>>> "Online Beiträge" >> right now 6th topic from top ( that one with the two pics -- the 2nd one being one of Axel von Hamlet, ahh --- Berg)
Says:
"The General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Rhineland-Pfalz, Directorate Koblenz has been able to secure a well-preserved celtic skull-trophy in the course of excavations near Kobern-Gondorf (Mosel).
In the course of excavating a well of an late-celtic farm a human skull with a nail knocked through it could be retrieved. I can be dated to about 50 BC. Chances are that the skull could stem from a roman legionary, for this was the times of Ceasar's campaigns against/in Gaule.
Says Dr.Dr. Axel von Berg, chief archeologist at Koblenz: It is quite imaginable that it is a roman legionary from Cesar's army from the times of building the bridges in the Neuwied Basin (area) in 55 and 53 BC.
For the archeologists at Koblenz this is the first find of this condition/shape in Germany.For the whole of Europe experts only do know very few comparable finds of this kind.
As for the significance: The Celts customarily collected the cut-off heads of their opponents and put them on display in their settlements. Those trophys then would be nailed to the portals/front-porchs of their homes/houses.
We will be glad to help you with further questions ."
O.K. ---- that means ---
here :
Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe
Direktion Landesarchäologie
Außenstelle Koblenz
Niederberger Höhe 1
56077 Koblenz
fon: 0 26 1 / 66753000
fax: 0 26 1 / 66753010
[url:1dnfylzw]http://www.archaeologie-koblenz.de[/url]
mail: [email protected]
Greez
Simplex
BTW: Maybe it is linked to the roman defeat against Ambiorix and the Eburones in 54 BC ?? Well, Kobern-Gondorf is supposed to have been in the Treverian area, this tribe being allied to Cesar (but in those times not always as firm as he'd wished) -- so .... ??
Here:
http://www.archaeologie-koblenz.de/
>>>> "Online Beiträge" >> right now 6th topic from top ( that one with the two pics -- the 2nd one being one of Axel von Hamlet, ahh --- Berg)
Says:
"The General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Rhineland-Pfalz, Directorate Koblenz has been able to secure a well-preserved celtic skull-trophy in the course of excavations near Kobern-Gondorf (Mosel).
In the course of excavating a well of an late-celtic farm a human skull with a nail knocked through it could be retrieved. I can be dated to about 50 BC. Chances are that the skull could stem from a roman legionary, for this was the times of Ceasar's campaigns against/in Gaule.
Says Dr.Dr. Axel von Berg, chief archeologist at Koblenz: It is quite imaginable that it is a roman legionary from Cesar's army from the times of building the bridges in the Neuwied Basin (area) in 55 and 53 BC.
For the archeologists at Koblenz this is the first find of this condition/shape in Germany.For the whole of Europe experts only do know very few comparable finds of this kind.
As for the significance: The Celts customarily collected the cut-off heads of their opponents and put them on display in their settlements. Those trophys then would be nailed to the portals/front-porchs of their homes/houses.
We will be glad to help you with further questions ."
O.K. ---- that means ---
here :
Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe
Direktion Landesarchäologie
Außenstelle Koblenz
Niederberger Höhe 1
56077 Koblenz
fon: 0 26 1 / 66753000
fax: 0 26 1 / 66753010
[url:1dnfylzw]http://www.archaeologie-koblenz.de[/url]
mail: [email protected]
Greez
Simplex
BTW: Maybe it is linked to the roman defeat against Ambiorix and the Eburones in 54 BC ?? Well, Kobern-Gondorf is supposed to have been in the Treverian area, this tribe being allied to Cesar (but in those times not always as firm as he'd wished) -- so .... ??
Siggi K.