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clips from Moments in Time - Letters from the Roman front
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#16
02-03-2007, 10:31 PM
Quote:Not looking to the way it presents the background and history, i really couldn't stop to laugh about the "camouflag segmentatae", the really big and not to close helmet of the leader or the ..."big" sword of one of the celts....
Just great Big Grin
And this sentence "raves and rocks and the romans"....just great.
I wasn't able to understand what they called the shield wall they performed against the spears. Did they really called it testudo?

The segs, shields and helmets are the same ones used for "Attila" (starring Gerard Butler and Powers Boothe)

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#17
02-04-2007, 12:00 AM
Quote:The segs, shields and helmets are the same ones used for "Attila"

And from the looks of them, same goes for the loricae hamata. Sleeveless, no doublers, strange-looking and typical.
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#18
02-04-2007, 12:10 AM
Tortoise...interesting Big Grin
Thank you Cristina.

Robert, all in all it's....full of colour...whatever that is worth.
real Name Tobias Gabrys

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#19
02-04-2007, 12:17 AM
and we all now know to avoid the Batavi at Archeon ...... was he scalped before or after.... :lol: :lol:
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#20
02-04-2007, 07:11 PM
Quote:and we all now know to avoid the Batavi at Archeon ...... was he scalped before or after.... :lol: :lol:

:?: Big Grin Please explain????
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#21
02-05-2007, 11:58 AM
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Arthes:jsms89c6 Wrote:and we all now know to avoid the Batavi at Archeon ...... was he scalped before or after.... :lol: :lol:

:?: Big Grin Please explain????
The Batavians were known for taking the heads of enemies in battle.....the archaeologists in the video were not sure if the skull they found belonged to someone who 'was scalped alive or had his hair removed after his death'.... !
'Your hair is too long, let us trim it.... :twisted: '
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#22
02-05-2007, 12:10 PM
Not only Batavians, but it was usual for the head to be taken by Republican victors of single combat.
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#23
02-05-2007, 01:44 PM
Ah, I thought you meant our Late Roman friends from the UK, Rob Findlayson's group 'the Batavi', who join us at the Late Roman Event at Archeon.... Big Grin
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02-05-2007, 03:08 PM
Quote:Ah, I thought you meant our Late Roman friends from the UK, Rob Findlayson's group 'the Batavi', who join us at the Late Roman Event at Archeon.... Big Grin
I did......it was a joke.... :roll: :lol: English humour strikes again... :oops: !
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#25
02-05-2007, 08:01 PM
You scalped ROB???? Confusedhock: Big Grin D
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#26
02-06-2007, 02:07 AM
Quote:You scalped ROB???? Confusedhock: Big Grin D
Confusedhock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ROTFL
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