"950 years later" Topic

Re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings 950 years on:
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I'm not sure the Norman in the 3rd pic down could make it across the field without suffering a coronary.

Would have been fun to see this in person.

Dave

I went to the one in 2006, the last 'big' one. They reckoned there were about two and a half thousand re-enactors at that one!

Painters of mail armour note how it is not at all shiny! Dull grey mail but shiny helmets please….

I like the figure in the 11th picture down. It's clear someone just cut his base off and laid him down as a casualty marker.

"Painters of mail armour note how it is not at all shiny! Dull grey mail but shiny helmets please…."

Except a fair amount of it is shiny.

The three guys in the middle have shiny armour. You can see other shiny pieces around too.

This guy's armour is shiny too:

As is the guy behind him on the left.

Fair enough!

Maybe 'not the same shade as the helmets' might be a better way of describing it?

I see "Re-enactor-Belly" isn't limited to the US.

I was there for the Sunday re-enactment! A great experience, and the camps (Saxon and Norman) were just as interesting as the re-enactment itself. For the latter, we stood on the hill to the rear and used binoculars.

BTW, it had apparently rained previously; hence the rust on some of the chain mail.