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Archeon - Late Roman
Event
Friday 29,
Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 July 2005 |
 Andreas
and me started thinking about a Late Roman event
already back in 2003. After several shortlived
attemps by others to organise such an event, it
was not until last summer that we at last made
some headway when Archeon asked us to organise it
there. Then it took another 6 months to get the
groups together, some being added and some having
to cancel. But with the start of the summer
season, we had a glorious attendance of no less
than 70 people, 50 of them Late Roman soldiers.
And with that it was not only the first Late
Roman event organised on the European continent,
it may also be one of the best attended.
Look
at the right hand menu for pictures and a
description of each day:
Fectio, together with the
Herculiani, Foederati, Teuxandrii,
Dun Gwalch, Minervii, Batavi,
Legio I Germanica and Litus
Saxonicum, we all made sure it turned out to
be a great event!
This
was the programme for each day:
12.30-13.15 Parade through
the entire park & Presentation
in the Arena (all the groups)
13.30-14.00 Fashion Show:
Roman Army from 200 BC to 400 AD (I Germanica)
14.15-14.45 Late Roman drill
(II Herculia & Foederati)
15.00-15.30 The Big Fight (Teuxandrii,
I Minerva, Batavi, Dun Gwalch & Litus
Saxonicum)
15.30-16.00 Gladiators (Archeon,
most of us as honour guards)
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Group pictures (but without the
Dutch or the two German groups!)
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for the large image.
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 In retrospect,
the weather could have been better, there could have been
more public, but for all of us it was simply great. We
all had very much fun, managing to keep language problems
at a minimum; the Spanish hardly spoke English but a few,
as did the French, Belgians and Germans, whereas no one
spoke Dutch. But we got by well enough to exchange loads
of information, we even managed to get all the groups to
work together during some very neat performances. Our
main thanks go to Monty, who performed
brilliantly (as usual) at presenting many of the
performances. Garrelt, you and Rob did
a great job organising the fighting, even when almost
none of the groups had ever met before. Besides that you
were a great 'general' at the 'parade'! Ivan,
thank you for bringing your great group all the way from
Spain and of course Patrick and Alain,
where would we have been without the smart troops that
you brought with you? And a big thank you to Jack,
thank you and Archeon for taking the gamble in hosting
this event. Also my thanks go to all those who I did not
name here, all of you made this event something very hard
to forget. See you all next year!
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