Alright, here it is ... rather makeshift, but .....
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Hobnails and mural remains
Julius Caesar at the Autobahn
Spectacular find: The camps' trench with a gate at the Autobahn
Hardly discernible for the layman, but a sensation to the hassian Archeologists : two roman camps have been excavated on occasion of a building of a (new) bridge for the A3 (=Autobahn 3)near Limburg (Lahn).
This now stands well-established : Roman commander-in-chief Julius Caesar has been to Hassia.
Video : Roman camps, excavated. 1:36 Min
Copyrighted: HR , Hessenschau 02.05.2013
Amongst others, hobnails from roman soldier's shoes have been acquired, and these stem from from the times of Cesars conquest of Gaul. These and the 2 camps prove that the Romans had built "Ceasarian military camps on the right side of the Rhine, in what is modern-day Hassia" , Secretary-of-Art Eva Kühne-Hörmann (CDU) and the archologist-in-chief Prof.Dr.Egon Schallmayer both underlined at the presentation of the finds at the Wiesbaden-Biebrich palace (today).
Finds from roman times
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Most likely these important finds would have been "irrecoverably destroyed by the building project. Which makes evident the need for archeological care of monuments" , the secretary added.
The finds now shall be examined interdisciplinary by the scholars of the(Hassian) Archeological Authority and the Mainz University, amongst others.
Romans and Gauls as neighbours
In the course of a road-building project the scholars of HessenArchäologie (i.e. the Hassian chief Archeological Authority) had surveiled the area north of the (river) Lahn and were surprise by two roman camps showing up in the scales. The older (southward) camp, meanwhile excavated, enclosed about 10 ha , the younger (northward)camp right above the Lahn came out with 4 ha. On top of that a celtic settlement ( mid-LaTene to lateLaTene = 3rd to 1st century BC) was spotted directly north of the older roman camp.
Hobnails from the year 50BC
The examinations gave that the older camp had been errected while the gaul settlement was still populated.
The second camp was built after the gaul inhabitants had given up their settlement.
From the older camp, the researchers found just parts that had been baked together to so-called iron-lumps , pressed together to complete indiscernibility. This complicated a closer dating. Totally different in the younger camp, then. Here the excavation brought to light "informative" iron-lumps". They contained hobnails from roman soldiers shoes, which, after their characteristic shape and size have been in use in the times of roman commander Julius Caesar , at about 50BC.
(Rem.: Those datings have been verified on and on stemming from comparable french finding spots
like Alesia -- a similar camp has been spotted and excavated mear Hermeskeil-Otzenhausen --
we already have a thread on this :
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/17-roma...found.html )
Clues from a "diary-of-orders"
So both camps presumably were built during conquest and safeguarding of Gaul by Julius Caesar.
We shall, so the press-release of the Hassain Ministry for Science and Art "see the camps in conjuction with the
bridging of the Rhine, which Cesar mentioned in his war-journal ("De Bello Gallico"). He there referred to two
crossings of the Rhine in 55 and 53 AD between Koblenz and Neuwied. How he moved on from then, had been unclear hitherto."
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Out and Over
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