The importance of Roman Reconstruction Archaeology

[Robert Vermaat]

I am very very afraid you have seen a display somewhere of the PAX ROMANA group ... who have displayed this year at Fort Vechten Open Days with a line of 1st century Legionaries mixed with 4th Century Christian Late Romans.......... and probably have done so on several other occasions....
But as I am not allowed by my Consul (nor the moderators of this board)
to give you my deep-felt opinion on that particular historically anachronistic display i will send you a PM instead! :twisted:

Stop moaning HJ, it´s called a multi-period display for the audience in which we show the differences, we don´t pretend to be a legion of 6 soldiers like some groups that I know.. Sometimes we have also a Napoleontic Frenchman present! :twisted: Send me a PM. :wink:

Besides, if you had really looked at us you would have seen none of us wear a spangenhelm. :wink: :wink:

I thought the English and Dutch had a similar humor. So I will also apologize now to Robert and the other Late Romans just in case. :wink: [-quote]
No need Graham, I´m assured by Dan Shadrake that I understand Emglish humour better than some of your countrymen.

But acting like real soldiers would also cause us to lose contact with the broader audience, who would not like to be barked at in a military manner,

You do not have to shout at the audience Robert only your troops. Although Andreas already tells me you do boss him about! :wink:

I´ll try to spare Andreas in future...
No, what I meant was that if you´re going to be real soldiers, the easy manner between your group and the audience is lost, for then you´re no longer one of them. I can´t be a soldier and a scholar at the same time. Nor can I entertain kids with toy plumbatae.. I guess it´s the one or the other.