04-10-2010, 01:03 PM
Arminius 75,
In the meantime it has become a fact that from ca. 150 BC on the Roman could utilize "Ferrum Noricum", based on a sort of iron-oar that is amongst the best available on this planet (some folks even argue that it has come to earth via a comet that struck the Chiemgau-area in southern Bavaria -- as far as I am concerned I still have some reservations against this thesis,but .....).
The relations from that time on gave the Norici a privileged status when the Romans conquered the Alps and its northern "Foreland" before 15 BC, --- they were considered als Foederati/Amici for most parts as they supplied Rome with "strategic metals". ( ....and was not just "some furnaces" there, it was, even by modern standards, an industry)
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/beitraege/news/ferrum-noricum-ein-synonym-fur-qualitat-und-harte/69/neste/3.html[/url] in German
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.alpine-space.org/uploads/media/IRONROUTE_Abstract_of_the_research_activities_WP5_PP3.pdf[/url] in English
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.ironroute.org/iron-public/wp5-6/PP3_THA/Abstract%20Research%20WP5_Huettenberg%20_Austria_DE.pdf[/url]in German
(Of course it wasn't confined to the Huettenberg-area, the situation there serving as an example)
Some authors from antiquity do even mention situations where (german) warriors had to quit fighting and "straighten" their weapons as they were of inferior metal than weapons used by the Romans.
Greez
Simplex
Quote:Rome conquer their world because use order and technology, brain against muscle, the roman weapons were inferior on quality but were into a "mass production" and were very effective, every soldier were well equiped, only the barbarian rulers use chain mail or iron helmets, the vast mass of a barbarian army were single armed warriors with javlaines or a spear...now I wouldn't subscribe to that statement in full.
In the meantime it has become a fact that from ca. 150 BC on the Roman could utilize "Ferrum Noricum", based on a sort of iron-oar that is amongst the best available on this planet (some folks even argue that it has come to earth via a comet that struck the Chiemgau-area in southern Bavaria -- as far as I am concerned I still have some reservations against this thesis,but .....).
The relations from that time on gave the Norici a privileged status when the Romans conquered the Alps and its northern "Foreland" before 15 BC, --- they were considered als Foederati/Amici for most parts as they supplied Rome with "strategic metals". ( ....and was not just "some furnaces" there, it was, even by modern standards, an industry)
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/beitraege/news/ferrum-noricum-ein-synonym-fur-qualitat-und-harte/69/neste/3.html[/url] in German
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.alpine-space.org/uploads/media/IRONROUTE_Abstract_of_the_research_activities_WP5_PP3.pdf[/url] in English
[url:nm59e7vb]http://www.ironroute.org/iron-public/wp5-6/PP3_THA/Abstract%20Research%20WP5_Huettenberg%20_Austria_DE.pdf[/url]in German
(Of course it wasn't confined to the Huettenberg-area, the situation there serving as an example)
Some authors from antiquity do even mention situations where (german) warriors had to quit fighting and "straighten" their weapons as they were of inferior metal than weapons used by the Romans.
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
