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The German magazine The local provides more details as well as several photographs of finds from the site.

More likely with Rome HBO they just saw another opportunity for gratuitous sexual imagery - any relationship to actual practices to a great extent entirely accidental

Yuo really can tell the pecking order from this - now where's my umbrella...

OK, I've bit - it's not yet in stock (despie what says) but should be sent out by 3 Nov. Now have I still got my rubber brick handy?

Possibly a bit early for Halloween (usually 31st October) but the same to yourself when it arrives. Nice to see the distribution of the various coin finds in this link. There seems to be a real geographic spread of each coin type could this be linked to areas of influence or where the individual coins may have been minted?

From a quick search it looks like you may need to check out Ann Suter (ed.) (2008), Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond according to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review:

If you keep finding different images of the Eagle maybe if they did not have the equivalent to the 'King of Arms' (found in College of Arms in England or Lyon Court in Scotland) to the Roman's which way it faced wasn't important - only the fact that an Eagle was used for the image.

I agree. After seeing the trailer I had a look around and found one review site bewailing the fact that there were no 'Vikings' in the film. I do wonder if the title was someone at Hammer's idea of an in-joke because they had gotten someone from Finland to play the title role.

I susppect if you are talking about the legionary standards then if this image from Trajan's column is anything to go by then probably straight forward: Standards of Legio I Minervia

I suspect the fastest way to have 'Islamo-facists' or any other group that 'we' in the West may wish not to be in power is to keep treating them AND everyone else in their country as if they are not to be trusted. While remembering the 'obvious' lessons of Chamberlain's action with Hitler*; treating people honourably as you would wish to be treated by them and speaking 'gently' about what you may wish for in return may be a better way forward. * I have long wondered if rather than having the wool pulled over his eyes; much of what he said and did was actually what proved to be a successful attempt to buy time while Britain rearmed.

The Telegraph seems to have got a bit carried away as this report from the Evesham Journal makes clear. While very significant in terms of size for finds in Worcestershire it was a silver rather than gold hoard which was found. Again some Kudos should go to the finders for reporting it as soon as they made the discovery which reading between the lines although they may have 'lifted' the pot has allowed a wider excavation of the area to be carried out by archaeologists helping to place the find into its proper context. The news report on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) website here makes it clear why this find is so significant:

Precisely where did this bunch of time travelling marines come through the rift in time anyway? I can just see them trying to paddle all the way from the wilds of early c.1st century AD America or cross the desert from Iraq without the aid of modern air lifts, even Germany could be a difficult proposition - Kalkreise Forest anyone.

The idea of modern military units being swept back in time/ alternative time streams/ planets have crept out into fiction for as long as I can remember so this idea is nothing 'new' even if normally it is a single individual/platoon / company sized unit. Pitching an entire battalion against the entire Roman Empire seems a no-brainer compared to some of the wilder what-if notions I've come across. However I do wonder if they have throught through some of the parameters which 'in reality' could well throw a spanner through their gears. Consider just a few key questions: Is the unit mechanized? - If it is precisely how much fuel can it bring with it or does it carry the where with all to drill and refine more. Modern ammunition provides lots of killing power but what happens once you have fired off everything you brought with you? Looking at reports from recent conflicts modern units do seem to go through it at an inordinate rate rellying on regular resupplies to keep operational. Some may suggest that advanced hand to hand combat skills and kevlar armour would be the answer or a mobile weapons shop to fabricate what you need but I would still worry about how much could be manufactured from scratch and being on the receiving end of a flight of weighted pila or even arrows not to forget sharp pointed weaponary.

There have been a few discussions related to Roman music before on UNRV and although I haven't double checked the older links included in the threads you may be interested in the following: Roman music?Another discussion on how Roman music would have sounded A Really Strange Question... Includes some more links to

Hope you have a great day today mate

Possibly but I was actually pondering the extent to which it may already be an 'ineffective and expensive campaign'...

N.B. This is true even if you consider that 'Crassus' rather than 'Pompey' defeated the main force under Spartacus.

I suspect that you are reading too much into the previous answers and allowing your knowledge of more modern armies to influence what you expect from the period. The basic aim of Roman training as described by Vegetius was to ensure that they were a disciplined fighting force capable of effectively engaging their enemies and ideally catching them when they were 'unarmed'. Nowhere does that mean that in addition to being taught basic (and/or combined unit) combat skills they did not indulge in some forms of unarmed combat whether formally taught or otherwise.

I also find this description incompatible with the fact that in terms of their day they apparently received extensive battle training as exemplified by Vegetius descriptions in De Re Militari . Do not fall into the same trap of thinking that they were not trained to a higher degree than most of the 'armies' they met.

Manchester University have just announced this significant find of a 'complete' burial on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Scotland. 'Complete' burials in recent years have previously only been found AND properly excavated in the Orkneys:

'Could become'...?

The first is the recurring problem I was referring to but now you come to mention it....

Congrats on your lady friend even if you are both addicted to fish - I like them well enough but they don't like me

In previous wars/police actions, whatever you want to call them, the UK policy (unlike America) has always been to bury the fallen in a War Cemetery where they had fought without the option of repatriation. The major change has been the decision to bring them back instead of buryign them locally which has allowed the overly-patriotically/ nationalistically minded to travel in their hordes to wave the flag. All in commemoration of people they probably wouldn't have known from Adam in real life. As to Wootton Bassett the local coroner will no longer be sitting in judgement on the deaths of those killed in the conflict in 'true' Roman fashion 'were they citizens, killed lawfully etc, etc. This is the current situation as Wootton Bassett is the first place the bodies are returned to English soil so a Coroners Court has to be held on each. I understand this move may well be a relief to the UK Government given his oft stated views on the conflicts.

I know how Ghost feels but even for those of us who failed to make as good grades as we should have in school there can be hope for you later in life. more generally some of exam issues can be down to how individual students prepare or don't prepare for exams as much as their perceptions of what is required. My brother had a fellow student in High School who was a straight 'A' student nto only that but seems to have he got 100% in all of his tests but spent all of his time studying and revising to the extent that he had a nervous breakdown before his exams and failed the lot. In comparison when studying for a Degree part time we had one mature student who was also a straight A student but had twice totally failed his final topic exam. We eventually realised what had kept tripping him up and as a class basically battered him into the realisation that there was no 'correct' answer to the visual images which were first up in the exam. He eventually accepted that he could choose in which order to deal with the topics and that with the visual images he had to make his own interpretation based on the available evidence presented and comparisons with other images he knew. I later heard that he did finally achieve the top level 'honours' grade he had previously kept failing on.