What's ? in 2004

December 6, 2004
More pictures from our two-day event at the Dutch Army Museum (Legermuseum) in Delft, and a very late picture of me at Archeon in august. I also changed a few links. In the bibliography there is now a separate page for the sources. Quite a bit to read;
New in the Bibliography for December:

• Aurrecoechea Fernandez, Joaquín (1996): Bronze studs from Spain, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 7, pp. 97-146.*
• Aurrecoechea Fernandez, Joaquín (1999): Late Roman Belts in Hispania, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 55-62.*
• Baatz, Dietwulf (1999): Katapulte und Mechanische Handwaffen des Spätrömischen Heeres, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 5-19.*
• Bédoyère, Guy de la (2001): Eagles over Britannia. The Roman Army in Britain, (Tempus 2003).*
• Biborski, Marcin (1994): Römische Schwerter im Gebiet des Europäischen Barbaricum, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 5, pp. 169-97.*
• Bosman, A.V.A.J (1995): Pouring lead in the pouring rain, making slingshot under battle conditions, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 6, pp. 99-103.*
• Christie, Neil (1991): Longobard Weaponry and Warfar, A.D. 1-800, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 2, pp. 1-26.*
• Croom, Alexandra (2000): The wear and tear of third century military equipment, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 11, pp. 129-34.*
• Davies, Jeffrey (1969): Roman and Native in Wales: I-IV A.D., in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 34-43.*
• Dockum, Sakia van (1990): Houten in the Roman Period, Part 1: a stone building in Burgemeester Wallerweg, in: Berichten van de Rijksdienst van Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek 40, pp. 297-321.*
• Dornier, Ann (1969): The Reorganisation of the North-Western Frontier of Britain in A.D. 369: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Notitia Dignitatum, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 102-5.*
• Fox, Aileen (1969): New Light on the Military Occupation of Sout-West England, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 84-93.*
• Fuentes, Nick (1991): The mule of a soldier, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 2, pp. 65-114.*
• Garbsch, Jochen (1969): Recent Excavations at Late Roman Vemania, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 156-163.*
• Griffiths, W.B. (2000): Re-enacting as research: towards a set of guidelines for re-enactors and academics, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 11, pp. 135-9.*
• Haines, Tim, Graham Sumner and John Naylor (2000): Recreating the world of the Roman soldier: the work of the Ermine Street Guard, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 11, pp. 119-127.*
• Hoffmann, Dietrich (1969): Die Neubesetzung des Grenzschutzes am Rhein an der gallischen Atlantikküste und in Britannien unter Valentinian I. um 369, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 168-73.*
• Hyland, Ann (1992): The Roman cavalry horse and its efficient control, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 3, pp. 73-119.*

November1, 2004
More pictures of our last guard duties at the tower. After that, we were two days at the Dutch Army Museum (Legermuseum) in Delft, and last but not least we finished the year with a very nice day at Museum Dorestad in Wijk bij Duurstede.
New in the Bibliography for November:

• Lyne, Malcolm (1999): Fourth Century Roman Belt Fittings from Richborough, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 103-113.*
• Mertens, J. (1969): Liberchies-Brunehaut: castellum du Limes Belgicus, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 106-11.*
• Mócsy, András (1969): Ein spätantiker Festungstyp am linken Donauufer, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 191-6.*
• Oldenstein, Jürgen (1990): Two Roman helmets from Eich, Alzey-Worms district, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 1, pp. 27-37.*
• Petru, Peter (1969): Ajdovšcina: neue Augrabungsresultate, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 178-84.*
• Rald, Ulla (1994): The Roman swords from Danish bog finds, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 5, pp. 227-41.*
• Reuter, Marcus (1999): Späte Militärdolche vom Typ Künzing. Anmerkungen zur Datierung und Verbreitung, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 121-4.*
• Stanford, S.C. (1969): Native and Roman in the Central Welsh Borderland, in: Roman Frontier Studies 8, pp. 44-60.*
• Wilkins, Alan (1995): Reconstructing the Cheiroballistra, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 6, pp. 5-60.*
• Wilkins, Alan (2000): Scorpio and Cheiroballistra, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 11, pp. 77-101.*
• Zimmermann, Alexander (1999): Zwei ähnlich dimensionierte Torsiongeschütze mit unterschiedlichen Konstruktionsprinzipien - Rekonstruktionen nach Originalteilen aus Cremona (Italien) und Lyon (Frankreich), in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 137-140.*

October 1, 2004
More pictures of guard duty at the tower. I also added a few more links. Much stuff to read, though;
New in the Bibliography for October:

• CBA Research Report No 24 (1978): Plat Taylor, Joan du and Henry Cleere (eds.): Roman Shipping and trade: Britain and the Rhine provinces, 11 articles, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr24.cfm.*
• CBA Research Report No 51 (1983): Maloney, John and Brian Hobley (eds.): Roman Urban Defences in the West, 17 articles, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr51.cfm.*
• CBA Research Report No 93 (1993): Greep, Stephen J. (ed.): Roman Town, the Wheeler inheritance, 16 articles, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr93.cfm.*
• Birley, A.R. (1971): VI Victrix in Britain, in: Butler, R.M. (ed.): Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire, pp. 81-96.*
• Birley, E.B. (1971): The fate of the Ninth Legion, in: Butler, R.M. (ed.): Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire, pp. 71-80.*
• Butler, R.M. (1971): The defences of the fourth-century fortress at York, in: Butler, R.M. (ed.): Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire, pp.97-106.*
• Driel-Murray, Carol van (2000): A late Roman assemblage from Deurne (Netherlands), in: Bonner Jahrbücher 200, pp. 293-308.*
• Driel-Murray, Carol van (2001): Footwear in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, in: Goubitz, Olaf (ed.): Stepping Through Time, Archaeological Footwear from Prehistoric Times through 1800, pp. 337-376.*
• Gil, Eliseo, Idonia Filloy and Aitor Iriarte (2000): Late Roman military equipment from the city of Iruña/Veleia (Alava, Spain), in: JRMES 11, pp. 19-29.*
• Hartley, B.R. (1971): Roman York and the northern military command to the third century A.D., in: Butler, R.M. (ed.): Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire, pp. 56-69.*
• James, Simon (1986): Evidence from Dura Europos for the Origins of Late Roman Helmets, in: Syria 63, pp. 107-34.*
• Johnson, Stephen (1980): A Late Roman Helmet from Burgh Castle, in: Britannia 11, pp. 303-12.*
• Lewin, A. (2001): Kastron Mefaa, the Equites Promoti Indigenae and the creation of a Late Roman Frontier, in: Liber Annuus 51, pp. 293-304.*
• Piccirillo, M. (2001): The Church of Saint Sergius at Nitl, a centre of the Christian Arabs in the Steppe at the Gates of Madaba, in: Liber Annuus 51, pp. 7-20.*
• Ramm, H.G. (1971): The End of Roman York, in: Butler, R.M. (ed.): Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire, pp. 179-99.*
• Rowe, Peter (ed.) (2000): Anglo-saxon Teeside, Archaeological Booklet 1 (Tees Archaeology).*
• Shahîd, I. (2001): The sixth-century Church Complex at Nitl, Jordan. The Ghassanid Dimension, in: Liber Annuus 51, pp. 285-92.*
• Waner, M. and Z. Safrai (2001): A Catalogue of Coin Hoards and the Shelf Life of Coins in Palestine Hoards during the Roman and Byzantine Periods, in: Liber Annuus 51, pp. 305-36.*

September 19, 2004
After the summer break, extra activities! We were at Wijk bij Duurstede/Levefanum on the 11th and at the tower with Legio X Gemina on the 12th. Also two more reports of visits: one about the 'Houten Stone', a gravestone found there in 2000, and to the recently erected copy of a monument to Viradecdis, a local goddess.

• Dockum, Saskia van (1990): Houten in the Roman Period, Part I: a stone building in Burgemeester Wallerweg, in: Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek 40, (ROB, Amersfoort), pp. 297-321.*

September 1, 2004
A break for the summer, but now there are some additions to the site. We've been doing guard duty at the tower. Also, a very nice show at the local Museum Freriks in Winterswijk, and of course our attendance with Legio II Augusta at the Roman Days at Archeon! I also added a 'mission statement' of the group about who we are and what we do.
New in the Bibliography for September:

• Bennett, Julian (1991): Plumbatae from Pitsunda (Pityus), Georgia, and some observations on their probable use, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 2, pp. 59-63.
• Coulston, J.C.N. (1990): Later Roman armour, 3rd-6th centuries A.D., in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 1, pp. 139-60.
• Coulston, J.C.N. (1991): The 'draco' standard, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 2, pp. 101-14.
• Fortes, José Beltrán & Adolfo Raul Menéndez Arguín (1999): New Evidence on the Use of Armour by Roman Soldiers of the Fourth Century AD, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 10, pp. 21-6.
• Iriarte, Aitor (1996): Reconstructing the iron core from the Deurne helmet, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 7, pp. 51-7.
• Lyne, Malcolm (1994): Late Roman helmet fragments from Richborough, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 5, pp. 97-105.
• Marchant, David (1990): Roman weapons in Great Britain study: spearheads, problems in dating and typology, in: Journal of, a case Roman Military Equipment Studies 1, pp. 1-6.
• Negin, A.E. (1998): Sarmatian cataphracts as prototypes for Roman equites cataphractarii, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 9, pp. 65-75.
• Woods, David (1993): The ownership and disposal of military equipment in the Late Roman army, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 4, pp. 55-65.
• Woods, David (1995): Julian, Arbogastes, and the signa of the Ioviani and Herculiani, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 6, pp. 61-8.
• Woods, David (1996): The Scholae Palatinae and the Notitia Dignitatum, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 7, pp. 37-50.
• Woods, David (1998): Two notes on late Roman military equipment, in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 9, pp. 31-5.

July 1, 2004
New in the Bibliography for July:

• Bögli, Hans (1991): Aventicum. Die Römerstadt und das Museum, Archäologische Führer der Schweiz 20.
• Drack, Walter and Rudolf Fellmann (1991): Die Schweiz zur Römerzeit, Führer zu den Denkmälern (Artemis, Winkler).
• Evison, Vera, with J. Evans (1994): An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Great Chesterford, Essex, CBA Research report 91, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr91.cfm.
• Martin-Kilcher, Stefanie (ed.)(1995): Das römische Heiligtum von Thun-Allmendingen, Archäologische Führer der Schweiz 28.
• Völling, Thomas (1991): 'Plumbata - Mattiobarbulus - Martzobarboulon? Bemerkungen zu einem Waffenfund aus Olympia', in: Archäologischer Anzeiger, pp.: 287-98.

June 13, 2004
A few pictures from our main activity, which is guard duty at the tower.
New in the Bibliography for June:

• Allason-Jones, L. (1993): Small Finds, in: P J Casey and J L Davies with J Evans: Excavations at Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Fort, 1975-1997, CBA Research report 90, pp. 165-210, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr90.cfm.
• Knight, Jeremy (1996): Late Roman and Post-Roman Caerwent. Some Evidence from metalwork, in: Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. 145, pp. 35-65.

May 7, 2004
A few more pictures of the tower. Also, finally the visit to Jerusalem in 1990, discussing the visit of course, but also the Jewish wars of 66-70 AD and the remaining Roman ruins.
New in the Bibliography for May:

• Christodoulou, D.N. (2002): Galerius, Gamzigrad, and the Fifth Macedonian legion, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 15, pp. 275-81.*
• Kruyff, Lizet (1998): Romeinse helm met Christelijk monogram gerestaureerd, in: Scarabee 36, p. 15.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (1984): Catafractarii clibanarii and the rise of the Later Roman mailed cavalry. A gravestone from Claudiopolis in Bithynia', in: Epigraphica Anatolica 4, pp. 151-6.*
• Speidel, M.P. (1985): The Master of the Dragon Standards and the Golden Torc: an Inscription from Prusias and Prudentius' Peristephanon, in: Transactions of the American Philological Association 115, pp 283-8.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (1987): The road to Dumata (Jawf in Saudi Arabia) and the frontier policy of praetensione colligare, in: Historia 36 (1987), 213-221.
• Speidel, Michael P. (1987): The Later Roman field army and the Guard of the High Empire', in: Latomus 46, pp. 375-9.*
• Speidel, Michael P. and Michael F. Pavkovic (1989): Legio II Flavia Constantia at Luxor, in: American Journal of Philology 110, pp. 151-4.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (1992): Maxentius' Praetorians, in: Roman army studies II (Stuttgart), pp. 385-9.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (1992): A veteran from Legio III Italica on a new gravestone from Grado, in: Roman army studies II (Stuttgart), pp. 403-5.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (2000): The army at Aquileia, the Moesiaci legion, and the shield emblems in the Notitia Dignitatum, in: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 45, pp. 68-72.*
• Speidel, Michael P. (2000): Who Fought in the Front?, in: Géza Alföldy, Brian Dobson, Werner Eck (eds.): Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Gedenkschrift für Eric Birley (HABES 31), (Stuttgart) 2000, pp. 473-82.*

April 17, 2004
The roof is ready on the tower, and we did some posing there as well, so I added a few pictures to the site of the tower. Also, we had our first event of the year at the Biblical Open Air Museum!
New in the Bibliography for April:

• No new items.

March 23, 2004
Update of the agenda for 2004. Not less important, the translation of many pages from the 'group'-section into Dutch. And, I added another batch of pictures to the page about the tower.

March 1, 2004
I added a few pictures to the site of the tower, and a few I still had lying about of the marching-camp on the Ermelose Heide.
New in the Bibliography for March:

• Cowan, Ross and Angus McBride (ill.) (2003): Imperial Roman Legionary AD 161-284, Warrior 72, (Osprey, London).*
• Gil, Eliseo, Idoia Filloy and Aitor Iriarte (2000): Late Roman military equipment from the city of Iruña/Veleia (Alava, Spain), in: Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 11, pp. 19-29.*
• Haldon, John (2002): Rome at War AD 600-1453, Osprey Essential Histories 33.*
• Johnson, Stephen (1980a): A Late Roman Helmet from Burgh castle, in: Britannia 9, pp. 303-12.*
• Kramer, E. et al (eds.) (2003): Koningen van de Noordzee, 250-850. Catalogue of the exhibition, (Noordboek, Groningen).*
• Manning, William (2001): Roman Wales- a Pocket Guide, (University of wales Press)*.

February 1, 2004
A new page about an old visit - Caesarea in 1990. Big article, nice pictures of the amphitheatre, aquaducts, more..
New in the Bibliography for February:

• Baatz, Dietwulf und Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann et al (1982): Die Römer in Hessen, (Theiss, Nikol 2002).*
• Böhme-Schönberger, Astrid (1997): Kleidung und Schmuck in Rom und den Provinzen, (Limesmuseum Aalen).*
• Cahn, David (1989): Waffen und Zaumzeug, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, (Antikenmuseum Basel).*
• Cüppers, Heinz et al (1990): Die Römer in Rheinland-Pfalz, (Theiss, Nikol 2002).*
• Feugère, Michel (1993): Weapons of the Romans, (Editions Errance, Tempus 2002).*
• Fischer, Thomas (1988): Römer und Bajuwaren an der Donau, Bilder zur Frühgeschichte Ostbayerns, (Friedrich Pustet, Regenburg).*
• Kemkes, Martin et al (2002): Am Rande des Imperiums, Der Limes - Grenze Roms zu den Barbaren, (Limesmuseum Aalen).*
• Visy, Zsolt (ed.) (2000): Von Augustus bis Attila, leben am Ungarnischen Donaulimes, (Limesmuseum Aalen).*

January 12, 2004
A new year, a new month and many new pages planned. I've added 4 pictures of the current situation of the Roman tower at Fort Vechten.
New in the Bibliography for January, a big update, mostly online so I'll not show each here, and most about Roman villas in Britain, the Saxon Shore and plumbatae:

• Barker, P. (1979): The plumbatae from Wroxeter, in: Hassall and Ireland 1979, De Rebus Bellicis, BAR Int. Ser., vol. 63, Oxford, pp. 97-9.*
• CBA Research Report No 1 (1955): Romano-British villas: some current problems. Report of a conference held by the Council for British Archaeology, July 1955 (Reprinted from the Archaeological News Letter, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1955), pp. 28-55), 9 articles, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr1.cfm.*
• CBA Research Report No 18 (1977): Johnston, D. E. (ed.): The Saxon shore, 16 articles, at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rr18.cfm.*
• Buckland, Paul, and Malcolm Dolby (1972): Doncaster, in: Current Archaeology 33 (vol. 3, no. 10), July 1972, pp. 274-5.*
• Bushe-Fox, J.P. (1949): Fourth Report on the Excavations of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, vol. 16, Oxford, pp. 152, plate LIX, no. 295-6.*
• Chadwick Hawkes, Sonia (1982): Anglo-Saxon Kent c. 425-725, in: Archaeology in Kent to AD 1500 edited by Peter E. Leach, CBA Research Report No 48, pp. 64-78, at: http://minerva.york.ac.uk/catalogue/proj_data/cbaresrep/pdf/048/04810001.pdf.*
• Condorelli, S. (1967): La plumbata tribulata: Helikon (rivista di tradizione e cultura classica dell'Università de Messina) vol. 7, pp.443-448.*
• Degen, R. (1992): Plumbatae: Wurfgeschosse der Spätantike, in: Helvetia Archaeologica, vol. 23, pp. 139-147.*
• Musty, J. and Barker, P. (1974): Three plumbatae from Wroxeter, Shropshire, in: Antiquaries Journal, vol. 54, pp. 275-7.*

Everything that went before can be seen at the '2003' pages!