From: tgpedersen
Message: 64580
Date: 2009-08-03
>Some more stray finds of Sarmatian ring-pommeled swords. At least that's what you called them.
>
> > > > GK: Correction. Here is the Kulikov text on this: "The
> > > characteristics of the burial rite of the amber country
> > > which exemplifies equine headgear of the Proto-Vimose and
> > > Vimose type [GK: i.e. the Celtic stuff] are particularly
> > > interesting.
> > >
> > > Very interesting.
> > > Vimose is on Fyn (the island you couldn't spell).
> > > Tell me more about its Celticness.
> > > http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Vimose
> > > http://tinyurl.
> > > com/l5pqww
> > > You're winging it again, right?
> > >
> > > ****GK: I said "Celtic stuff" as an abbreviation of a
> > > previous post outlining the Celtic origins of this type of
> > > object. The fact that it is named after Vimose is just a
> > > matter of convenience. Here is Kulikov: "The Celtic material of
> > > 100 BCE-> 100 CE etc., (as cited earlier)". He then
> > > continues:"In all their areas [i.e. those of the Celts GK] at
> > > the end of La Tene we find bronze chain type belts,
> > > predecessors of the details of the Vimose type equine
> > > headgears."... "Among the finds discovered in the camps of 1rst
> > > c. CE Roman legions ... are many type Rh1 equine headgears
> > > predecessors of Vimose (called Proto-Vimose [in the
> > > professional literature GK]) the originating source of the
> > > Vimose equine headgear type prepared on such Celtic models for
> > > Rome's auxiliary cavalry." Try not to choke
> > > (:=)).****)>
>
>
> I'll manage. Celtic, you said?
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/27139
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/27140
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