A large body of opinion, including the scholars at the Kalkriese Museum (Susanne Wilbers-Rost, Günther Moosbauer, historian Ralf Jahn and British author Adrian Murdoch, see below), believe that the Roman army approached Kalkriese from roughly due east, from Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, not from the south of the Wiehen Hills (i.e., from Detmold).
Nemška zgodovinarja Peter Kehne in Reinhard Wolters sta prepričana, da je bila bitka najbrž na območju Detmolda in da je bil Kalkriese samo prizorišče ene od bitk leta 15 n. št.