this can fill a hole day :), but i think its interesting
he believe that kalkriese is the battle at pontes longi 15ad mainly because of tacitus, dio and florus II.
halberstadt because of the location "te ut o burgi ensi saltu" = there, where the saltu (=latifundia) that was destroyed, being just grow up and secured by sword and tower (burgi=greek =tower, not turres)
in his opinion the norther-harz area was a growing roman saltu. it has a special (good) microklimate. quedlinburg is still today famos for plants and growing.
he also believe that the romans were defeat in open battle, because early and later army don´t had such "problems" like varus. for example, the battle at pontus longi is fought in castru formation.
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