Talk:Der Eiserne Mann

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I thought this info was rare enough to add :) I'll probably do a careful translate of the German sign sometime and post it. --cjwalters

I tried to clean up the English translation but this sentence just doesn't make sense: "Dieses war offenbar als Aufhängevorrichtung für Transport und Weiterverarbeitung gedacht vereitelte als Verankerung bisher jeden Versuch, den Barren gewaltsam zu entfernen." (NB There are two verbs in it: gedacht and vereitelte) Pcernak 16:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

There's obviously an "und" missing in the German sentence. It should read "... gedacht und vereitelte ...". So it would translate: "The T-end was obviously meant as a supporting device for transport and subsequent treatment. Acting as an anchorage it has so far defeated each attempt of removing the ingot by force."
Strange to see the Iron Man in the English Wikipedia. Stranger still to see it dubbed an OOPART. I grew up in the vicinity and saw that piece of iron in my youth. A friend of mine used to meet his girlfriend there. Never thought there was anything esoteric about it.
BTW, there's a full-length photo of the piece (during the excavation in the 70ies) with one branch of the T-end clearly showing, here: http://www.heimatfreunde-roisdorf.de/eiserner.html
Alex 22:10, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OOPArt

why, exactly, is this an OOPArt? i didn't see any information in the article saying that this was out of the ordinary for the Roman empire, or whenever it is thought to date from. NCartmell 22:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Why is it called the 'Iron Man'? From the picture, it doesn't look like a human figure, just a lumpy rectangular bar. Fasrad 04:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)