Show here your Roman soldier impression

[Bran ap Maclou]

Our curraghs outing this weekend at Gloucester docks... here Pegasus is about to ram Triton! (Much to the applause of the 20,000 people standing on the dockside! :lol: )
I'm sure Romano-Brits wouldn't have larked about like this :roll: but then they didn't have a sick British audience encouraging them!

I kan't help but keep on thinking about these curraghs...
I like them aspecialy the one with the little mast...
What Time period would they be? My quess is iron age (maybe earlier)up to the roman time's and/or maybe later??
And how Brittish are they? Would they have been made and used trough out the continent also??

Being dutch we have to deal with water al the time, especialy my encenstors so I can't stop thinking about what kind of boats they used..

Hi !

That's a bit out of topic so I will be brief but I recommend you the reading of "the Brendan voyage" by Tim severin (an Oxford taught history lecturer/novelist/explorer, specialist of sea travel history if I remember) who crossed the atlantic ocean on a curragh in 1977 from Kerry county Ireland to Peckford Island Terre-neuve. He wanted to prove that the life of Saint-Brendan so atypical with so few usual miracles was credible and that it was possible to reach the new world even during the VIth century. The interesting thing in the book is the way they built the curragh.

Currently in Brittany two Vth-VIth cent curraghs have been recently built but they are now rottening in dockyards, the Saint-Brioc and the Saint-Efflam, due to the expensive cost of maintaining them afloat. But that's an interesting reenactment adventure at the twilight of the roman Britannia.

Bye !

Greg