Fectio Links to Late Romans groups

.. Welcome to Fectio!

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.

Kelten und Römer (GE)
A German group showing the development of the Celts, Romans and Bavarians around Rosenheim. Late Romans here.

Legio III Italica Antoniniana (GE)
A German 3rd-c. group, portraying garrison life on the upper Danube (Castra Regina/Regensburg). Link to their 2004 Trans Alpes project.

Legio Herculiani Iuniores (F)
A very active Frenco-Belgian group, portraying life during the 4th century. Their equipment can certainly be called unsurpassed these days!

Legio Herculiani Seniores (I)
A large multi-period Italian group (Storinsubria), who also organise a Late Roman event in or around Milan.

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.

Legio Septimani Seniores (E)
A Catalan group, part of the Legio I Germanica, who specialise in the Late Roman period.

Letavia (F)
A Breton group, who show the 5th century from the point of view of the Seguntienses, a Late Roman unit from North Wales, transferred to Gaul.

Lusoria Project (GE)
A brilliant German project of re-creating a Late Roman Lusoria, a fast river vessel.

Populares Vindelicenses (GE)
A very nice-looking Bavarian group, portraying 3rd-c. garrison life on the upper Danube (Raetia).

Timetrotter (GE)
A famous German cavalry group who reenact several periods, including the Late Roman period.

Alamannin im Ruhrgebiet (GE)
A German site, portraying an Alamannic upper middle class women of the period 580-630 AD.

ASK (GE)
The Alamannisch-Suebische Kulturdarstellung are a German group portraying the Alamanni from the 2nd to 7th c. AD.

Bajuwaren (GE)
A German group portraying Alamannic life.

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.

Lentienser (GE)
A German group, portraying Alamannic farmer-warriors of the period up to 600 AD.

Litus Saxonicum (GE)
A German group portraying Anglo-Saxons of the period up to 400 AD.

Raetovarier (GE)
A German group, portraying life of the Alamannic sub-tribe the Raetovarii.

Reparabilis Gens (GE)
A German group, portraying life of the Alamanni between 580 and 630.

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.

Late Roman forums

Roman Army Talk
A very, very good forum. In fact, the very best where discussions about the Roman Army are concerned. And the experts are coming, too.
Forum Armes et Guerriers au temps des Grandes Invasions
A French forum about the Late Roman army, very thorough, loads of good talk (provided you speak French), many images.
Segontium - A US-based Late Roman discussion forum.
The Batavi Late Roman Forum.

Late Roman Shield Patterns taken from the Notitia Dignitatum
Luke Ueda's excellent site about all the units and shield designs of the Late Roman Army, AD 394.

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.
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.