Am I The Only Bronze Age Re-enactor?

[Mithras]

Hi!<br>
<br>
I know we have lots of Romans here , as well as a few classical Greeks. My era of greatest interest after 3rdC Rome is the bronze age, and I can't help myself trying fabricate some authentic bronze age items.<br>
<br>
Am I alone??<br>
<br>
I've been on a bronze casting workshop (www.geocities.com/zozerga...onze1.html ) and made a late BA leaf-shaped sword as well as a dagger blade and axe-head. Recently I've made a stone bracer, and a bag of Egyptian carpenter's tools. My next step is to make up clothing based on the Danish bog-burials (should not be too difficult). Maybe even an Egyptian warrior's kit, too.<br>
<br>
I see Matt Amt has a couple of BA links. Are there any others? <p>Paul Elliott<br>
<br>
<strong>Heroes of Delphi</strong> - Classical Greece gone D20<br>
<strong>Zenobia</strong> - Fantasy RPG in the Eastern Roman Empire<br>
<strong>Warlords of Alexander</strong> - Kingdoms in conflict for the ruins of Alexander's Empire<br>
<br>
www.geocities.com/mithrapolis/games.html</p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Paul,<br>
<br>
I have a very big soft spot for the Levant during the 11th-9th centuries BC, especially for the Hittites and the Sea Peoples (just don't mention Troy 'the movie') but I don't re-enact the period.<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=vortigernstudies>Vortigern Studies</A> at: 6/13/04 10:26 pm<br></i>

[richsc]

Mithras, Matt Amt and I were looking into bronze age; he has a collection of bronze spear heads and just put a handle on his bronze sword (he needs to post that one). We even went so far as to try to cost out a the type/number of tusks for a boars head helmet. Using whole tusks would be enormously expensive, but we could not tell if they were originally sliced or not; the museums that had such helmets never wrote back.<br>
Would be great to add a Mycenean warrior to the Legio XX panoply.<br>
<p>Legio XX<br>
Caput dolet, pedes fetent, Iesum non amo<br>
<br>
</p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

"Am I The Only Bronze Age Re-enactor?"<br>
<br>
err... no.<br>
I have friends both in England and holland that reenact the later bronze age, run casting workshops and now are looking at combat demo's, should be great fun! <p></p><i></i>

[Matthew Amt]

Yup, I'm here! Must have missed this thread. For those who haven't seen it yet, my Bronze Age page is here:<br>
<br>
www.larp.com/hoplite/bronze.html<br>
<br>
It's got photos of my sword and the start of my boar tusk helmet, among other things. I'll be buying tusks from Moscow Hide and Fur, and as long as I stick to the cheaper ones the total cost will probably be under $150. But yeah, lots of tedious cutting...<br>
<br>
Have to add photos of my spears. Just javelins, really, the points are teeny. Even the one I thought was going to be bigger turned out to be only 5" long including the tang. So I still need a nice substantial socketed spearhead.<br>
<br>
I'm focusing on Mycenaean, but my collection is going to be more varied, ultimately. A horned Shardana helmet would be neat. As always, I have a LOT more ideas than time!<br>
<br>
Enjoy, and Valete,<br>
<br>
Matthew <p></p><i></i>