Posted on 03/22/2020 9:00:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Regarded as one of the nation's most horrific battles, the AD 43 event was actually created by an archaeologist with a flair for storytelling, new research claims. This colorful account was first written by archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler after he excavated the site with his wife between 1936 and 1937, subsequently claiming he had discovered a 'war cemetery'.
And according to a report in The Daily Mail , as a result of Wheeler's lies, for many decades this famous ancient face-off has been described as 'the massacre' of a tribe of Ancient Britons by a Roman legion led by future emperor Vespasian.
Wheeler claimed the remains of the 56 ancient British warriors he had found buried had been interred 'in a rush' and he found what he described as 'terrible injuries'. And having failed to denounce any of these claims, English Heritage, which manages the hillfort site on the outskirts of Dorchester, held this account as the correct history of the site. But now, Dr Miles Russell, Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University claims 'absolutely no evidence' exists for any such 'great battle' at Maiden Castle...The real world statistics, according to Dr Russell, prove that '74 per cent of the 52 discovered bodies found suffered violent deaths', but rather than all having died at one battle the remains proved to be from a wide timeframe ranging from 100 BC to 50AD suggesting the people lived through 'multiple periods of stress, competition and conflict'. And perhaps the most disturbing 'fact' in all this is that by 43 AD Maiden Castle 'had largely been abandoned' which means the archaeologist entirely bent actual British history to fit his predetermined romantic notions.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
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There's been a resurgence of interest in the Varian disaster perhaps due to the book "The Battle that Stopped Rome" [sic]. Any loss of a legion isn't unlikely to lead to the retirement of the numeric ID, quite likely due to superstition and bad joojoo over their loss. Ultimately it is meaningless. Not only did the Roman Empire continue to settle east of the Rhine, in the past 20 years a Roman cemetery was uncovered by accident (construction, leading to rescue archaeologists being called in to excavate a possible medieval/dark ages burial ground) -- in Copenhagen. The Romans operated in the Danish peninsula and cleared it out completely, apparently to control trade in and out of the Baltic. More discoveries will likely continue to pop up
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