08-31-2008, 11:34 AM
My late-/sub-roman impression of a Romano-Briton soldier settled in Western Armorica/Letavia in the last decades of the 5th century.
Photos shot at Archeon.
Picture credits go to Kelvine (Foederati) and to Fectio :wink:
Training in the morning with my fellow milites.
The "Practise Fight" in the afternoon.
A note about my helmet as some may be intrigued. It is not a reproduction of an archeological piece, but a kind of "missing link" between the late roman helmets of the 4th century and the anglo-saxon helmets of the 7th and 8th centuries such as the Pioneer/Wollaston and the Coppergate helmets, hence why it echoes them a bit.
Next steps for 2008-2009 season: new cingulum with romano-british horsehead buckle, spatha, new tunic, new spear, and I hope thoracomachus with lorica hamata.
Photos shot at Archeon.
Picture credits go to Kelvine (Foederati) and to Fectio :wink:
Training in the morning with my fellow milites.
The "Practise Fight" in the afternoon.
A note about my helmet as some may be intrigued. It is not a reproduction of an archeological piece, but a kind of "missing link" between the late roman helmets of the 4th century and the anglo-saxon helmets of the 7th and 8th centuries such as the Pioneer/Wollaston and the Coppergate helmets, hence why it echoes them a bit.
Next steps for 2008-2009 season: new cingulum with romano-british horsehead buckle, spatha, new tunic, new spear, and I hope thoracomachus with lorica hamata.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert