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Welcome to Fectio, part of
the Vortigern Studies websites. Fectio is a Late
Roman re-enactment group, based in The
Netherlands and attempting to re-create a
soldiers 'life in the times of Vortigern. Edited
by Robert
M. Vermaat. |
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Links
about Roman re-enactment, from the Principate to the
Dominate and the Dark Ages. Some links are to interesting
non-re-enactment sites. For non-Roman groups look here.
Late
Roman and Germanic re-enactment groups (3rd-6th century)
- Batavi (UK)
A small, friendly group who re-enact
military and civilian life in the 4th to
6th centuries A.D. The military
activities are based around a late Roman
army unit which arrived in Britain in 360
A.D. and returned in 367 A.D. to form
part of the mobile field army and
remained here at least until the end of
Roman rule in Britain.
- Britannia (UK)
The oldest UK society when it comes to
fifth-century Arhurian re-enactment in
Britain. Run by Dan Shadrake, well-known
from movies and television.
- Cohors I Gallica
(E)
A Late Roman group from Spain, formed by
a group of archaeologists who work at the
Late Roman town of Iruna/Veleia.
- Cohors V Gallorum
(UK) and the Arbeiea Society
A
third century Roman re-enactment society
based at the Roman fort of Arbeia at
South Shields. The group recreates
both the military and civilian life of
the early third century (around 230 AD).
This period is neither early or late
empire and reflects the changes which
occurred from the late second to the late
third century in the clothes, equipment,
weapons and personal belongings of the
soldiers and civilians.
- Comitatus (UK)
A
group of friends who endeavour to re-create
life in the north of England during the
period 306-866 AD. Their shield design
represents a unit called the Legio
Praesidiensis, originally from
Praesidium, possibly Newton Kyme, near
York.
Look here for a website
from one of their members (Caius
Fortunatus), showing a 3rd c. as well as
a 4th c. infantryman, and a great report
of an expedition: The Big Walk -
Climbing Scafell Pike in Late Roman Kit.
- Foederati (F)
A French group, portraying life in Gaul
during the 5th century. See also this page for their event
at Bliesbruck 2004, and here for pictures
from Archeon 2005.
- Legio I Germanica
(E)
A new Catalan group showing the
development of the Roman army and it's
equipment, from Marius to the Late Roman
period. Super friendly group!
- Legio II Herculia
/ Herculiani (F)
A very active Frenco-Belgian group,
portraying life during the 4th century.
Their equipment can certainly be called
unsurpassed these days!
- Legio III Italica
(CH/GE)
A Swiss-German group, portraying both
military (Legio Tertiani) as well as
Alamannic civilian life (Sih Frewen) in
the Roman province as well as Germanic
lands.
- Lusoria Project (GE)
A brilliant German project of re-creating
a Late Roman Lusoria, a fast river vessel.
- Minervii (GE)
A German 4th-c. group fron northern
Germany, showing both limitanei
as well as comitatenses of the
Late Roman army.
- Septimani
Seniores (E)
A Catalan group, who specialise in the
Late Roman period. Their website has yet
to be developed.
- Timetrotter (GE)
A famous German cavalry group who reenact
several periods, including the Late Roman
period.
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- ASK (GE)
The Alamannisch-Suebische
Kulturdarstellung are a German group
portraying the Alamanni from the 2nd to 7th
c. AD.
- Combrogi (UK)
Combrogi recreate the
society of Britain during the period
between the Roman withdrawal and the
Norman Invasion 400 to 1066 AD, but they
also do primarily Late Roman.
- Foederati (GE)
A new German group which portrays the
Germanic tribes of the Elbe region such
as the Hermunduri, Thüringi and Old
Saxons.
- Lentienser (GE)
A German group, portraying Alamannic
farmer-warriors of the period up to 600
AD.
- Raetovarier (GE)
A German group, portraying life of the
Alamannic sub-tribe the Raetovarii.
- Teuxandrii (NL)
A Dutch multiperiod reenactment/living
history group, which atempts to
demonstrate daily life from 100 before to
1100.
- Ulfhednar (GE/P)
A famous German-Polish group, also
portraying life of the Alamanni between
350 and 500.
- Ulfinger (GE)
A German group, portraying cavalry of the
Celts, Late Antique Germans and
Merovingians.
- Winniler (I)
An Italian group, portraying the
Longobardi (Lombards) from the 1st to 7th
century.
- Wulfingas (UK)
An
English society portraying life and war
in early Anglo-Saxon England between 450-550
AD.
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Late
Roman forums
Selected
Roman groups
RomanArmy.Com
The mother
site of the forum. Database full of images of
modern groups but also the largest collection of
military gravestones.
The Roman legions
A very nice part of the great website of Jona
Lendering, with a chronological as well as an
alphabetical catalogue of most Roman legions,
each with a (short) history.
Antonine Guard Legio VI
Victrix
The Antonine
Guard was formed in 1996. It is a Roman
Historical / Re-enactment group concentrating on
the period of Roman occupation of Scotland in the
1st and 2nd centuries AD. The guard has adopted
Legio VI Victrix as its parent legion.
Corbvlo
LRGG Corbulo
is a Dutch group of enthousiastic re-enactors. By
doing project in Living History at schools,
museums, at historical digs and in themeparks
they mean to show how history can come alive.
Pax
Romana
Pax Romana
is a Dutch reenactment society that portrays
Roman soldiers of the Cohors XV Volotariom
Civium Romanorum, a group of the Classis
Augusta Germanica (marines of the Rhine
fleet) and Batavian civilians (Civis Batavi),
as they would have appeared in the last quarter
of the first century AD.
Legio
XIIII Gemina Martia Victrix, Roman Military
Research Society
A very good
site. The RMRS is a research and re-enactment
group specialising in recreating the Roman Army
and Roman life during the latter part of the
first century A.D., but with offshoots to earlier
and later times.
Legio XX
A very good
site. This recreated Twentieth Legion usually
portrays the legionaries based in Britain in the
mid-first century AD, but auxiliary troops or
legionaries from other eras may also be
represented. The group is based in the
Washington, D.C. area but will accept Associate
Members from anywhere in the world.
Römergruppen - Imperial
Roman Reenacting
Links page about all groups re-enacting
Roman units.
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