10-11-2009, 12:46 AM
Hello from New Zealand
I'm originally from the Pennine hills in Brittannia. Been in NZ for 21 years. My main Roman interests are archery,the Batavians, swimming, long distance marching and strangely, acquaducts.
I shoot a 125lb longbow and an eastern composite recurve.I make all my own arrows.
This Southern hemisphere summer I'm planning on swimming some rivers using an Auxillary shield to see how easy/difficult the infantry section of a Batavian Cohors Equitata would have found it (That's if they did it at all. I've never found any references to Batavian infantry swimming, it's always the cavalry).
I'm not a Roman reenactor as such but I'm getting into the medieval reenactment scene and will possibly slide into the Roman stuff as well at some time in the future. I've got horse archery on my to do list as well.
I studied Latin at school for 2 years so I've got a very rudimentary grasp of the language and I've been to many Roman sites in England, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey over the years. One day I hope to make it to Caeserea on the coast of Israel and free dive down to the harbour ruins there.There is also a very interesting looking acquaduct which has got some very intact parts along it's length. I was fortunate to be able to walk on top of the Pont Du Gard in Provence back in the early nineties. When I was last there 4 years ago I saw that it's no longer possible.
I'm looking forward to hearing from anyone on the forum that has the same kind of interests.
Cheers
Keith.
I'm originally from the Pennine hills in Brittannia. Been in NZ for 21 years. My main Roman interests are archery,the Batavians, swimming, long distance marching and strangely, acquaducts.
I shoot a 125lb longbow and an eastern composite recurve.I make all my own arrows.
This Southern hemisphere summer I'm planning on swimming some rivers using an Auxillary shield to see how easy/difficult the infantry section of a Batavian Cohors Equitata would have found it (That's if they did it at all. I've never found any references to Batavian infantry swimming, it's always the cavalry).
I'm not a Roman reenactor as such but I'm getting into the medieval reenactment scene and will possibly slide into the Roman stuff as well at some time in the future. I've got horse archery on my to do list as well.
I studied Latin at school for 2 years so I've got a very rudimentary grasp of the language and I've been to many Roman sites in England, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey over the years. One day I hope to make it to Caeserea on the coast of Israel and free dive down to the harbour ruins there.There is also a very interesting looking acquaduct which has got some very intact parts along it's length. I was fortunate to be able to walk on top of the Pont Du Gard in Provence back in the early nineties. When I was last there 4 years ago I saw that it's no longer possible.
I'm looking forward to hearing from anyone on the forum that has the same kind of interests.
Cheers
Keith.
Keith Collier