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Teutoburg Forest Battle Site.
Roman Cuirass Recovered at the Kalkriese Site.

Editorial: Many historians have cast doubt on the claim the Teutoburg Forest Site as identified by British Major John Clunn in 1987 is the true location of the battle, citing the paucity of relics recovered at the site limited to one single piece of Roman armor, which could have been from a legionary in Germanicus' or Drusus' camp, who had lost his life in a skirmish following their campaigns in Germany.

We are told the Romans were trapped on a "narrow piece of land" between an impenetrable swamp on one side and a dense forest with thousands of enemy in situ on the other .. it is not a sound tactic to allow yr army to be thusly trapped .. so how it all came about and where the battle actually took place for me remains a mystery.

Varus is said to have spurned advice Arminius had troops in place and was preparing an ambush .. now we must remember the tactic employed by Hannibal when he crushed the Romans .. his irregulars had accompanied the Romans on their march until they had the entire column shadowed, who then attacked right along their line at a given signal .. which is more or less the same thing Arminius did, as educated Romans the Legion Tribunes and Varus should have kept this in mind.