07-23-2015, 11:49 AM
Robert if you charged every passer by at your turret you would soon be able to buy a replacement tunic!
Shaking down civvies for "donations" is a great way to fund your reenactment group.
You just have to be really good at getting new people out to your events each time...
Robert wrote "Not to mention avoiding the local constabulary".
Robert I was thinking more in terms of the actual Roman soldiers doing this, although many modern groups ask for donations. In Roman times you would have been the local constabulary and if you read some of the documents from Egypt soldiers adding their own cut to the local taxes is a matter of course. Often this is done on demand from the soldier. So anyone who paid a road tax to go past your turret would also have to give you personally something or else! This practice was so common it appears in local business accounts.
The surviving late Roman helmets are all silvered or gilded are they not?
Graham.
Shaking down civvies for "donations" is a great way to fund your reenactment group.
You just have to be really good at getting new people out to your events each time...
Robert wrote "Not to mention avoiding the local constabulary".
Robert I was thinking more in terms of the actual Roman soldiers doing this, although many modern groups ask for donations. In Roman times you would have been the local constabulary and if you read some of the documents from Egypt soldiers adding their own cut to the local taxes is a matter of course. Often this is done on demand from the soldier. So anyone who paid a road tax to go past your turret would also have to give you personally something or else! This practice was so common it appears in local business accounts.
The surviving late Roman helmets are all silvered or gilded are they not?
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
