06-08-2010, 11:59 AM
I understand why a film brief would like this as they are in the main intersted in atmosphere over reality but if you are looking to represent something close to reality I don't buy the weather thing. Average annual rainfall in the Roman period was 50-60cm pa against now at 75-80cm pa. Temperatures were warmer too. The climate took a turn for around 400AD but was warm enough for vineyards in Northamptonshire before then.
I do not see why equipment that was not worn on a day to day basis, and a lot of which was likely to be bronze, could not be kept in order with very little maintenance so that the few times a year it came out ot looked spectacular. I cannot belive that any Editor would want rusty or verdegree ridden gladiators insulting his audience, many of whom might be military, with grubby battered equipment.
As to the sand what did the Guild hall dig pull up? Do you have usefull link?
I do not see why equipment that was not worn on a day to day basis, and a lot of which was likely to be bronze, could not be kept in order with very little maintenance so that the few times a year it came out ot looked spectacular. I cannot belive that any Editor would want rusty or verdegree ridden gladiators insulting his audience, many of whom might be military, with grubby battered equipment.
As to the sand what did the Guild hall dig pull up? Do you have usefull link?
Conal Moran
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