Originating in Germany the Danube flows southeast for 2850 km passing through or bordering Austria Slovakia Hungary Croatia Serbia.

Pontoon bridge roman. This will become the Roman pontoon bridge that will feature in my Bedriacum game at Partizan in just over 2 weeks time. They built a wooden bridge close to the site of the present London Bridge giving this spot a nearly 2000 year-long history of bridge building. Presumably we are looking at the south bank of the River Danube.

Roman Pontoon Bridge Dacia At its simplest form a pontoon bridge is a collection of shallow draft boats lashed together across a river or canal with some form of track or deck lashed to the top. Roman-designed pontoon bridges constructed mostly during wartime for the shock and awe of quick raids and were a specialty of Julius Caesars. This latter is dated at 209AD.

M2 pneumatic pontoon M2 treadway bridge sections and access ramps. His analysis is complex and rather contorted. Ganzhou ancient pontoon bridge in Ganzhou City Jiangxi Province China about 400 meters long connects the two banks of the Gongjiang River is made up of more than 100 boats.

The crossing over to the north shore marks the. Two pontoons fastened together could and were used as ferries. The Roman bridge was sited 60m east downstream of the current structure.

He also addresses a second coin which shows a pontoon bridge of boats. 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. 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.

Danube bridges pontoon bridge Bridge of Constantine the Great Columna Traiana. This model is a very accurate scale. London was founded by the Romans and just as we do today they found that getting across the Thames was essential.