06-09-2011, 11:42 PM
Off and on weather meant that our 'History Street' programme at Ryedale Folk Museum had mixed crowds. With the rain, no-one in sight, then as the sun came out the place filled up rapidly.
The History Street is 20 or so re-enactors camped in date order, from the iron-age through to Republican Rome, 3rd century and 4th century Rome, Saxon, Viking and Medieval. Last year we also had stone age represented ...
Getting the tents in date order is the hardest part!
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With our combined experience (although 20 is not alot of people!) we were able to have a good spread of crafts through the ages, too: pottery, mail making, woodturning, weaving, naalbinding, basket-weaving, wool dyeing, antler and wood carving, mosaic-making and a bit of Arthurian story-telling.
For me, its cooking. The catering section of the Roman army cooked local iron age recipes (hazelnut and grain broth with nettle oatcakes, mussels in milk with oatmeal dumplings, Roman chicken, Roman beef patties, pan-fried pork with apple and hardtack, lamb stew, bean rissoles ... the meals were constant and filling...
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I'm hoping its not as soggy and damp when we do it again later in the summer.
The History Street is 20 or so re-enactors camped in date order, from the iron-age through to Republican Rome, 3rd century and 4th century Rome, Saxon, Viking and Medieval. Last year we also had stone age represented ...
Getting the tents in date order is the hardest part!
With our combined experience (although 20 is not alot of people!) we were able to have a good spread of crafts through the ages, too: pottery, mail making, woodturning, weaving, naalbinding, basket-weaving, wool dyeing, antler and wood carving, mosaic-making and a bit of Arthurian story-telling.
For me, its cooking. The catering section of the Roman army cooked local iron age recipes (hazelnut and grain broth with nettle oatcakes, mussels in milk with oatmeal dumplings, Roman chicken, Roman beef patties, pan-fried pork with apple and hardtack, lamb stew, bean rissoles ... the meals were constant and filling...
I'm hoping its not as soggy and damp when we do it again later in the summer.
Paul Elliott
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
