Presumably we are looking at the south bank of the River Danube.
Pontoon bridge roman. London was founded by the Romans and just as we do today they found that getting across the Thames was essential. Roman-designed pontoon bridges constructed mostly during wartime for the shock and awe of quick raids and were a specialty of Julius Caesars. 359 rows Pons Cestius Rome during a flood This is a list of Roman bridges.
In 101 CE Roman troops carrying their kit over their shoulders depart from the town gate or a fortress gate and start over a pontoon bridge as the personification of the river Danuvius looks on. The Roman historian Herodian of Antioch. Heres the incipit.
In 55 BC he built a pontoon bridge that was around 437 yards 400 meters long to cross the Rhine river which was traditionally thought by the Germanic tribes to be safely out of reach of Roman power. He also addresses a second coin which shows a pontoon bridge of boats. Itll be built of coffee stirrers card bamboo skewers and balcony edges from 4Ground.
Danube bridges pontoon bridge Bridge of Constantine the Great Columna Traiana. It stretched three miles across the deep blue waters of the Bay of Naples at ancient Romes most fashionable seaside resort of. His analysis is complex and rather contorted.
The crossing over to the north shore marks the. IN AD 37 the new Roman Emperor Gaius better known by the nickname Caligula built a bridge across the sea. This latter is dated at 209AD.
According to Roman historian Suetonius the bridge spanned more than 3 miles across the bay from the town of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli. The Danube1 was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today flows through 10 countries more than any other river in the world. It would take five and a half hours to an experienced crew to place a 362 foot section of M2 bridge in daylight and two hours more at night.