Roman Camp Found Near the Elbe

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So much for the idea that the Romans abandoned all interest in Germania after the Teutobergerwald fiasco.

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2...rn-germany

“Now we have the first camp that’s clearly more than a day trip from the edge of the empire,” he says. “It’s no isolated frontier outpost, but something that clearly points to the Elbe River,” hundreds of kilometers deep in German territory.

I don't think it perfectly correct to say that Rome abandoned all interest in Germania after the Varus disaster. Whenever interest in the region began to flag, some gaggle of unwashed barbarians (the Goths, the Chatti, the Almani...whomever) would stage a raid and Roman interest would flare up for a campaign season.

I've always felt the Western Empire might have held together longer if Augustus' successors had listened to him. Oh, well.

Boru