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Excavations!
#16
Quote:There is no need to apologise about your age Sam. You are a lot closer to being are-enactor than I was at sixteen and I think you are showing an admirable attitude to asking questions (none of which are stupid by the way) and making things for yourself. When I was your age I was still making model aircraft.

Crispvs

Crispus, I am still making model aircraft and fly them at age 40 so what is your point ??
as well as playing and having played most of the games Sam mentioned xD rotflmao !!!

Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin

M.VIB.M.

PS: Sam, the battlefield is from a much later date than the Kalkriese remains of 9 AD, its highly likely from the third century ad :

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...20,00.html
Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.

Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!

H.J.Vrielink.
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#17
Fair point Henk, but then again, when you were sixteen were you building the type of aircraft you use now (I've seen your planes remember :grin: ) or was it something a little more modest, like the airfix kits I used to make up in those days? :wink:

Crispvs
Who is called \'\'Paul\'\' by no-one other than his wife, parents and brothers.  :!: <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_exclaim.gif" alt=":!:" title="Exclamation" />:!:

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#18
Ahhhh Airfix....*eyes mist over momentarily at the memories*..... Confusedmile:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#19
When I was 16 I built the Graupner MAXI and flew it untill it crashed two years later, then I had moved on to flying 1:1 Gliders in real life. I started plastic modelling at age 7 or 8, with the Airfix, Monogram and Revell models as well as Tamiya, AMT/ERTL, Hasegawa and many others, from ship to World War Two planes and jets to rockets (Dang i miss my Saturn V which was destroyed when my late mum got a bit carried away hoovering) I still have too many model kits which need to be finished, found all 70's Aoshima 1/35 samurai and those boxes are stacked neatly in my modelling cabinet... So yes... I was and still am hooked Wink

Computer games wise i started on the C64 and ended with Rome and Empire Total War, as well as COD, all Star Wars games ever brought out et cetera... LOL But nowadays i have so many hobbies that i dont want to let go of i had to put re-enactming on third for a while.... xD

M.VIB.M.
Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.

Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!

H.J.Vrielink.
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#20
Hi Fidelis Sam,
...the battlefield marcvsvibivsmavrinvs pointed at got its regular website here:
http://www.roemerschlachtamharzhorn.de in German .....
….but with minor contributions in English.
More informations in German on a TV-Special on the Romans In Germany, that also dealt with that subject can be found here :
http://www.planet-wissen.de/sendungen/20...roemer.jsp
…..with the Harzhorn mentioned here (In German):
http://www.planet-wissen.de/politik_gesc...rzhorn.jsp
The 6th Field Of Conflict Conference >on Battlefield Archeology, has been held at Osnabrück (Germany)in April, so expect a full(and most likely expensive) report on it to come out during one of the next years. Since this was an international convention and the website is held in English:
http://www.fieldsofconflict2011.uni-osnabrueck.de/
most of the papers will be in English, I presume.
I suspect that there may be papers/books around on Conferences 1-5, as well.

If you type in “Harzhorn” or “Kalefeld” into “Search” on this here forum, you may find a number of postings on that subject, also.

Then there will be a german book be published on battlefield archeology in October, which deals -among others-- with this battlesite. (In German)
http://www.theiss.de/pdf/Programmvorschau.pdf
Page 36

(No affiliations with them on my side, but since I keep pestering them with their
sometimes somewhat irritating printing mistakes, I thought it would be unfair to leave
this book out here. :mrgreen: )
Hope this helped

Greez

Simplex

BTW: I got "bitten by the bug" at 11 and I just saw a kids-TV-special this morning where the proud owner of a functioning "roman" quadriga confessed that this also had happened to him at 12. So, methinks one can never be too young to make his mind up for the more serious things in life like "Re-enactement". :mrgreen:
Yes, folks, and I also remember that I put little gray plastic parts (out of a package with "Airfix" written on it) together to unidentifiable lumps of plastic -- and liking it !
(It musta been the fumes, really, that I liked ? :roll: )
Siggi K.
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#21
Wow, I can't believe how well preserved that battle field really is! Having the arrows and something else being from the middle east, maybe the Romans DID cut all the way through Dacia and went through Germania, heading west towards the border when they got attacked. The archers could have been Syrian archers..idk. Also, does it say who likely won the battle? Having ballistas and other artillery, the Romans were obviously well equipped and the thousand Romans expected to have fought there could have been part of a much larger army. Either the rest was destroyed, or the thousand men did a " Dunkirk" act Confusedhock: Thanks a lot to the links to these sites, and it's not a problem being in German! ....hehe...google chrome has translate :roll:
Haha, I kinda build models too :oops: um, I used to a lot, ships, and airplanes. But now I have a schedule that is terrible and leaves me with only my Roman hobby... In fact, I just manage to fit this in when around a computer ...so I'm really sorry if I miss out to reply to anything :neutral:
I always believed the Romans somehow managed to get further onto Germania...they're just too good! 8-)
Samuel J.
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#22
.....I'm glad you're obviously enthusiastic. 8)
As to Google Chrome, I haven't used it yet, but I still remain sceptic as to its abilities
translating the "terms of the trade".
However, this can be dealt with.
We have one ot two websites with special dictionaries for that:
1)http://www.donau-archaeologie.de/doku.ph...oerterbuch
...just use "Hinzufügen" (=add) for adding "Englisch" to the list of languages available.
You can delete languages by clicking at the "X".
The only problem is that the alphabetical order is according to german language.
2) http://www.grabung-ev.de/woerterbuch/uebersicht.htm
On the rightmost column with the blue letters there is a "Englisch-Deutsch" Wörterbuch [=dictionary)
Hope this helps

Greez

Simplex
Siggi K.
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