So those of you who follow archaeology news (and who doesn't really?) may have heard about the Roman camp whose identification was announced to the press this week. It is pretty cool, but I feel I should note that the science press has misrepresented some of the implications of the finds. There has never been any real doubt that the Roman army occasionally operated quite deeply into modern Germany--Germanicus' campaigns, for example, reached to the Wesser River. That being said, I don't know if there has been any direct historical evidence of the Romans operating quite so deeply into Germany as Thuringia, and if dating evidence emerges to place it outside the period of one of the major campaign we know about it could be quite an interesting example, of the sort of activity that did not reach the history books.