Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.
To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser.
Waldgirmes is located between the towns of Wetzlar and Giessen in the middle Lahn valley (Germany). The Roman site of Waldgirmes covers almost 8 acres, and dendrochronological data indicates that it was founded not later than 4 BC. Surprisingly the settlement was not abandoned after the battle of Varus in AD 9, but probably continued in use until AD 16, when Tiberius ordered a permanent withdrawal from Germania Magna. From outside the Roman settlement looked like a military camp. But inside the fortification the remains of wooden architecture was found, of atrium houses and buildings that look like strip houses along the streets, while in the centre there was a civilian forum. In the courtyard of the forum five robbed foundation pits for up to five statues were excavated. Numerous fragments of shattered stone plinths and very small fragments of gilded bronze came to light. The excavations in 2009 concentrated on a well from a depth of about 12 metres. Surprisingly the well was completely filled with numerous wooden objects, apparently deposited there to destroy the well. The biggest fragment of a statue, a life-sized gilded bronze horse’s head was located at the bottom of the well between eight millstones. The archaeological record surely has to be interpreted as the result of ritual deposition after a “Bildersturm”.
E&G Quaternary Science Journal
Archaeological prospections in the Roman vicus Belginum (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
A Roman well in Waldgirmes (Hesse, Germany): palynological analyses supported by plant macro-remains and micromorphological studies2020 •
Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Defended sites and fortifications in Southern Germany during the Bronze Age and Urnfield Period - a short introduction. In: B. Heeb, A. Szentmiklosi, R. Krause, M. Wemhoff (Eds.), Fortifications: The rise and fall of defended sites in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age of South-East Europe.2017 •
1999 •
2018 •
2021 •
Around the beginning of the era, several castella were built by the Roman army along the Rhine. In the west of the Netherlands the remains of these castella are more or less preserved in the subsurface at their original position at the river Rhine. Further east, from the castellum at Vechten, it is a very different story. In the province of Gelderland the castella have been washed away and ended up at a depth of several meters. Only at a few locations something has been preserved. In this article the phenomenon of the washing away of the Roman castella in in the province of Gelderland will be discussed and it will be investigated whether a number of questions can be answered. Questions such as: - How fast and gradual is the washout of a castellum? - How far are individual objects such as building materials, pottery and metal objects carried away by the Rhine? - How deep does the Roman material get? - How large and how extensive is the resulting debris field at depth? To answer these questions, several topics are addressed such as the landscape of Gelderland in the Roman period, flooding in the Roman period, the influence of man on the river, the effect of the Rhine on a castellum and on archaeological objects both metal and pottery. Using the data from the topics covered, the paper then looks at the washout conditions of some seven Roman sites. The entire article concludes with a summary, conclusions, and an epilogue with an account of the salvage of dredged finds and the problems encountered in reporting washed-out sites.
Loading Preview
Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.
ARID International Journal for Science and Technology (AIJST)
Growth of Solar Cells Articles at Elsevier Journals2018 •
2021 •
Fokus Ekonomi : Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi
ANALISIS PENGARUH TINGKAT LEVERAGE TERHADAP KINERJA PERUSAHAAN (Studi pada Perusahaan Food and Beverage yang Terdaftar di BEI Tahun 2011-2013)2017 •
Gulf Journal of Mathematics
Hemi-slant submersions from almost product Riemannian manifolds2016 •
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Face issues in L2 tutorials via videoconferencing: the role of smile as a co-verbal semiotic resource2021 •
Engineering and Technology Journal
The Alternative Representation of the Bipolar Sugeno IntegralJournal of separation science
Synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization for the solid-phase extraction of phthalate esters in edible oil2017 •
The Internet Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Coronary Artery Revascularization Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass After A Cardiac Stab Wound2006 •
Journal of Public Health Research
In utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, micro-RNA profiles, and fetal growth: a pilot study protocol2019 •
2017 •
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)
A large national cohort of French patients with chronic recurrent multifocal osteitis2015 •
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Wikipedia Vandalism Detection: Combining Natural Language, Metadata, and Reputation Features2011 •
VII International Symposium on Marine Sciences - ISMS 2020
Observadores Del Mar - a Marine Citizen Science Platform Working for a Healthy Ocean2020 •
Journal of Medical Education Development
Evaluation of the Role of Creative Educational Climate in Reflective Thinking Tendencies in Students of Qaen Nursing and Midwifery Faculty2020 •
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Industrial pollution and the management of river water quality: a model of Kelani River, Sri Lanka2017 •