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After initial successful skirmishes in summer 15 CE, including the capture of Arminius ' wife Thusnelda, the army visited the site of the first battle.

According to Tacitus, they found heaps of bleached bones and severed skulls nailed to trees, which they buried, "... looking on all as kinsfolk and of their own blood ...".