Roman Legionaries Back On Wall
Men in skirts with spears and shields set for Hadrian's Wall scrap this May.
Posted: 7 April 2009
by Jon
If you're on Hadrian's
Wall over the spring half-term holiday break and chance
upon the odd cohort of Roman
legionaries, don't panic, you're not seeing dead people,
just part of a major series of dramatic re-enactment events featuring
Romans, Border Reivers and civil war troopers.
 The enactments, taking place
between 26 and 31 May are part of The Living Frontier,
a series of events being organised along the wall. It starts on 26 May
with 'Sennhouse Alive!' at Maryport 'including historical tours, Roman
food and a chance to make your very own Roman goddess', it says here.
Get an adult to help you...
Then on 28 May a march of Romans and other re-enactors on Carlisle
Castle will launch the Carlisle Historic Quarter Partnership with a
parallel event taking place at the eastern end of the Wall in
Newcastle. Both acting a pre-cursors to the next three days of
re-enactments right along the wall.
These include the Sealed Knot, civil war re-enactors taking over
Carlisle Castle on 29 and 30 May, an encampment recreating Roman life
at Vindolanda. It all culminates in a 90-minute pageant at Tynedale
Rugby Ground in Corbridge on Saturday 30th May at 8.00pm. The
event will bring together all the re-enactors and their frontier stories
in 'a spectacular show which will mix storytelling with technical
wizardry'.
Sounds vibrantly educational and great for kids. For more information
and tickets, check out www.livingfrontier.com
or telephone 01434 322002.
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Cool! These things are usually fantastic and well worth taking kids to. I go to one most years at Caerleon and last year was the best ever when I went with friends and their 2 kids  But - "It all culminates in a 90-minute pageant at Tynedale Rugby Ground". Well, my money's on the Romans to give the Sealed Knot a good whipping 
Posted: 08/04/2009 at 16:45
Then run off to Rome leaving a power vacuum lasting many centuries to be known as the "Dark Ages". Or is there something wrong with my history? Never interested because of the way they used to teach it back then. Where was the mad guy cycling around the country wearing lurid pink and yellow cycling gear on a pink bike making stuff out of wood to show something salient about a place or era? Never had that when I were a kid. Of course isn't history teaching more like a lesson in interpretation rather than dates and facts? Or is that the Daily Mail version of history teaching? These things are always fun. It is just spoilt by the fact that they get up and aren't really killed. It might be more fun if they played it for real <only joking, or am I? >
Posted: 08/04/2009 at 16:54
Dates and facts are boring. Interpretation's much more fun, especially when you haven't actually got much in the way of dates and facts. And I'm afraid they're not the 'Dark Ages' any more - very un-PC there, Ttg - it's 'post-Roman Britain' now
Posted: 08/04/2009 at 17:08
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