Great actors and acting too. This is the one with the Picts painted pale blue and punkish hairstyles ?

Lucky you!

I went to the Archaeological Museum of my town yesterday (please note... a National Museum, something quite important) with a couple of friends because they told me there would have been a re-enactment group showing off Roman's weaponry evolution through the years... from archaic period to late Imperial.

We went there and I said: oh damn! I recognized some people under the helmets, they were acting as Elves during medieval-style parties some years ago... oh well people grow up I said... the very same persons built a Celtic branches hut 2 years ago - assuming that during the Third Century b.C. a powerful culture such as the Senonian Gauls had yet to discover either the brick and the roof tile. But at least their purpose was good, and I had really a strong hope that they would have improved more and better.

But no: lacks in clothing, brass harness instead of bronze ones, imaginative armors.

What's worst? that the Museum's Deputy Director is fond of them; she's going to open shelves to allow them to measure and photograph any item they want, plus she's going to give them any documentation about these items, even if unpublished.

While I have to dribble Museum's surveillance to make a couple of quick shots at the sword I want to forge using a hypotetical, yet historically plausible Iron Age forge and my arms - no electric tools at all - how am I supposed to understand ancient's habits if I simply make some quick replica??

It's frustrating, I hate when experimental archaeology is used as an excuse to role play inside official Institutions such as the Museum!

Greetings,
Mauro.

Had a chance to see The Eagle a couple of weeks ago. I really liked it. Gotta admit, if I was a legionary and my commander told me we were going to form the tetsudo (spelling?) and march into the middle of a bunch of psyched up savage Celts, I'd have turned and puked too.

Good movie. I liked seeing the Roman Phalanx tactics in action.

Sounds like a book I read back in the 50s, Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe(?). They had marched off into Caledonia and weren't heard of again. Her Sword at Sunset is a good read, too, a retelling of the King Arthur story set in a more realistic millieu.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlSkX8T4doQ

I'm not into Romans or Flavius Aquila.
I'm not into over-imaginative representation of the Pics, German camo?
Wasn't Trebus Germanicus governor over the Brit lands at the time the 9th went awol?

Celts Rule.