Landscape

I am fascinated by plexiglass platter and metal eyering "time machines" affording a view of a former populated site in it's prime on a budget.

And I am fascinated by the history of the roman settlement.
Just imagine, in 12 A.D. , just about when the kid Jesus is supposed to have talked in the temple, some crazy roman yuppie decided to built the very first production site and outlet mall town from scratch in germany.
The developer dropped houses and manufactures on a hill just north of the alps where they could look wide into the country and see what's up early on and have military drive hostile natives away, but for an oxcart it was impractically far from the main road and any other budding infrastructure. It is unlikely the hill was a major celtic fortified city before, but it more than likely was a little sacred site with calendar use, and the natives might have been not so amused and caused some troubles now and then, but no signs of huge battles are found until this day and there is no written record. Anyway some 35 years later the Romans simply packed it up and vacated the site, likely just to minimize their losses from poor buiness, leaving the turf wall, wooden ruins, filled latrinas and some other lost scraps -- that was it. There is no surviving historic report on stone or vellum on who was the clown who founded that unsuccessful project, who ordered to give it up, what it was called. It's mostly denrological tests and comparison of objects in databases that date it so well, science can do a lot with some sad excarvated scraps today. So we know a bit about it now again.
But it's in some way this settlement is sounding so modern, just the 19-21th century way to go over things.....