Tony Clunn
Tony Clunn , MBE (born May 10, 1946 in Kent , Great Britain ; † August 3, 2014 in Bissendorf , Osnabrück district , Germany ) was a British major and amateur archaeologist. In collaboration with Wolfgang Schlüter , he played a key role in ensuring that the Kalkriese region is now the most likely site of the Varus Battle due to archaeological finds . For his services to the German-British friendship, which Clunn acquired with his discoveries in Kalkriese and the surrounding area, he was awarded the Order of Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996.
Clunn's hobby was finding Roman coins with the help of metal detectors. On the advice of Schlüter, who at that time (1987) was a district archaeologist in Osnabrück , Clunn began to search 20 km north of the city, although no more Roman finds had been discovered in the Osnabrück area in the past eighteen years. Schlüter's recommendation was based on map studies and an essay by Theodor Mommsen . Clunn found what he was looking for on the very first day and discovered several coins that had been minted during the time of Augustus . Schlueter arranged for the site to be the site of more extensive excavations. Clunn was also the first to find centrifugal lead in the Kalkriese area in 1988 . Slingshot lead was the first unmistakable evidence of a military presence or even a battle in the Kalkriese area. The finds from the excavations are exhibited in the Kalkriese Museum and Park .
Over the next few years, Clunn examined the entire area around Kalkriese. On the basis of his coin finds, a path can be reconstructed today that the legionnaires are said to have taken under the leadership of Varus, and the place where the legionnaires are said to have been completely wiped out can be determined. The route found in this way corresponds exactly to the daily changing terrain as described by Cassius Dio . Clunn belonged to the Friends of Archeology in Lower Saxony .
literature
- Tony Clunn: In Search of the Lost Legions . Rasch, Bramsche 1998, ISBN 3-932147-45-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Tony Clunn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clunn, Tony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British major and amateur archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kent , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2014 |
| Place of death | Bissendorf , Osnabrück District , Germany |