Roman Stakes In Germany

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roman-wooden-spikes-barbed-wire-julius-caesar-180981727/

For the first time, researchers have discovered remnants of Roman-era wooden spikes meant to deter attackers. Frederic Auth

 

When Julius Caesar undertook his legendary military campaign in Gaul during the first century B.C.E., he wrote about small, sharpened wooden stakes that would line the fences of his camps—an ancient Roman version of barbed wire.

Until this year, no examples of this military technology had ever been found. Now, for the first time, researchers from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered an intact artifact. And in the process, they’ve dispelled a 130-year-old assumption about the area’s history.

[Pat Riot]

I wonder if they tied off C-rat cans in the barbed wire to warn of Gauls trying to get through their defenses?  
 

 

 

I just realized auto’tard screwed this all up. Fixed it.