Aubechies April 2011 - Roman Cavalry

Hello,

I was at a roman army re-enactment fair this afternoon at Aubechies (Belgium) and brought back some pictures and movies which I've decided to share with the UNRV crew :

picture : https://picasaweb.google.com/bryaxis/Aubechies24Avril2011?feat=directlink

movies :

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- 2 :

- 3 :

- 4 :

- 5 :

Enjoy !

Thank you very much for the upload! I find this very interesting as I saw these kind of shows back in Sweden, but only with medieval knights - the thought of doing it with Romans never even struck my mind.

The horsemen came from two teams, a belgian (Malagne, http://www.malagne.be/fr/arch_militaire.asp, 2 horses) and a german one (Time trotter, http://www.timetrotter.de/, 4 horses). While the first is from a more scientific team, the second is from a more commercial team of re-enactors.

Anyway, pleased to have made your day

That was fun. I'd love to go to something like that. Thanks for posting.

In case anyone in Britain is interested in seeing cavalry reenactors in action there is a Roman Cavalry unit attached to Comitatus and they are due to put on a display during next Weekends Bank Holiday at Maryport.

From their website:

28th/29th August BH - Senhouse Museum Roman Festival

Maryport

 

Cavalry, artillery, infantry and living history

as part of the Maryport Roman Festival.