06-23-2010, 09:18 AM
Hello,
....I had a look.
Well, -- what can I say after looking at their "virtual" reconstruction there: a wooden tower with an outward gallery, plastering and plaster-painting ?! Hmm ...... :roll:
They claim something like "application of recent findings" ?!
Well, it seems more like what the Rhein-Lahn-Presse (here: link from old RAT) unvoluntarily joking (?) wrote:
"Camp at Pohl: Building like in the times of the Kaiser" (that is NOT Franz Beckenbauer but Willy II ! :mrgreen: )
They're referring to the first reconstruction of the Saalburg here before WW 1 -- the feats of which have not remained undisputed in the course of time.
Taking a closer look at least towards the "virtual" reconstruction of the watchtower, the Rhein-Lahn-Presse may have hit the nail dead center here.
Why so ??
As mentioned here: link from old RAT and depicted also there (thanks D.B. !) is what a wooden watchtower should look like -- according to most recent research.
There has been thorough research on it and most of it should have been accessible at least to scholars already before 2010.
Moreover, although the material shown at Michelstadt was specifically referred to the Odenwald-Limes, there is no adverse proof against transferring the results also to the forward line of wooden (!) watchtowers of the ORL(Obergermanisch-Rätischer-Limes= the forward line) --with the depicted one on our website coming from Rainau-Buch at the ORL, based on research by Siegbert Huther (hopefully Dr. Siegbert Huther by now !) and was built ~ 8 years ago.
(I can't remember whether Dr. Jens Dolata, the archeologist depicted several times on the Pohl-website, has been at Michelstadt or not. He is also not on the list of the members of the Deutsche Limeskommision published here: [url:31nauz7e]http://www.deutsche-limeskommission.de/index.php?id=106[/url] --- hard times for archeologists ?! :mrgreen: )
Some of the data on the timetable of the limes conferred on the Pohl-website are also disputable, it seems.
In that light -- some of the informations/illustrations given on the Pohl website are quite a mouthful -- or may we hope that they improve upon their plans while building ?
(Ahhhh.....exact reconstruction....shtonk !!!! :mrgreen: )
With more projects like that coming upon us, the question arises: Quantity before quality ?
Greez
Simplex
....I had a look.
Well, -- what can I say after looking at their "virtual" reconstruction there: a wooden tower with an outward gallery, plastering and plaster-painting ?! Hmm ...... :roll:
They claim something like "application of recent findings" ?!
Well, it seems more like what the Rhein-Lahn-Presse (here: link from old RAT) unvoluntarily joking (?) wrote:
"Camp at Pohl: Building like in the times of the Kaiser" (that is NOT Franz Beckenbauer but Willy II ! :mrgreen: )
They're referring to the first reconstruction of the Saalburg here before WW 1 -- the feats of which have not remained undisputed in the course of time.
Taking a closer look at least towards the "virtual" reconstruction of the watchtower, the Rhein-Lahn-Presse may have hit the nail dead center here.
Why so ??
As mentioned here: link from old RAT and depicted also there (thanks D.B. !) is what a wooden watchtower should look like -- according to most recent research.
There has been thorough research on it and most of it should have been accessible at least to scholars already before 2010.
Moreover, although the material shown at Michelstadt was specifically referred to the Odenwald-Limes, there is no adverse proof against transferring the results also to the forward line of wooden (!) watchtowers of the ORL(Obergermanisch-Rätischer-Limes= the forward line) --with the depicted one on our website coming from Rainau-Buch at the ORL, based on research by Siegbert Huther (hopefully Dr. Siegbert Huther by now !) and was built ~ 8 years ago.
(I can't remember whether Dr. Jens Dolata, the archeologist depicted several times on the Pohl-website, has been at Michelstadt or not. He is also not on the list of the members of the Deutsche Limeskommision published here: [url:31nauz7e]http://www.deutsche-limeskommission.de/index.php?id=106[/url] --- hard times for archeologists ?! :mrgreen: )
Some of the data on the timetable of the limes conferred on the Pohl-website are also disputable, it seems.
In that light -- some of the informations/illustrations given on the Pohl website are quite a mouthful -- or may we hope that they improve upon their plans while building ?
(Ahhhh.....exact reconstruction....shtonk !!!! :mrgreen: )
With more projects like that coming upon us, the question arises: Quantity before quality ?
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
