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- Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:11 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Sutton Hoo helmet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1378
Sutton Hoo helmet
"Curator's Corner" from the British Museum "Though a great number of exceptional objects were found in the mound at Sutton Hoo, none have captured the public imagination like the Sutton Hoo helmet. And tonight, for the first time in 10 years, we got to get the incredibly delicate helmet out of its d...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Conquistador's clothing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 952
Conquistador's clothing
These are two items of clothing from a Spanish conquistador from around 1560, found in 1930 in one of the "grave fields" of the Chicama Valley, on the northern Peruvian coast, by archaeologists from the Munich Ethnological Museum. My source for the images is a facebook posting by Arqueohistoria Andi...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 11:57 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Who here uses a Great bascinet?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13005
Re: Who here uses a Great bascinet?
Am I mistaken, or aren't those meant to be worn over a regular bascinet sans visor, or at least a cervellier?
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:14 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: NGS video on the Talhoffer Ms.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2189
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Need Help with Impresion/Group website
- Replies: 4
- Views: 709
Re: Need Help with Impresion/Group website
I think the two parameters are a bit much. Let people search by time period and let them decide whether a group is "serious" or "fun" enough for what they want/need. Also, the time periods are too narrow at the upper end. I think most people will simply look by century or general time period --"medi...
- Tue May 08, 2018 1:17 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: The Compaignye Store Replica Medieval Coins
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4895
Re: The Compaignye Store Replica Medieval Coins
When Jehan first offered these some years ago I bought a bunch of several denominations. They are exquisitely done, and I highly recommend Jehan as your source for replica coinage.
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:01 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4359
Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
Samwell, have you glanced through this thread on the "I Want To Be ..." board?:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50677
Of course it mostly deals with kit, but there are some reading suggestions and links in there that may perhaps prove fruitful to you.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50677
Of course it mostly deals with kit, but there are some reading suggestions and links in there that may perhaps prove fruitful to you.
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:51 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4359
Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
Samwell Langdon wrote:The cooking and maintenance is mostly for myself, sadly lacking in valets and other service personnel,
- Sat May 13, 2017 2:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: God bless Western museum curators
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11519
Re: God bless Western museum curators
Yes, keep us updated, please!
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 11:47 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament video - BOTN?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2665
Tournament video - BOTN?
From Vice Media. They don't use the term, but I'm guessing it's Battle of the Nations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDDBL7jNew
I'm sure folk here will recognize one or two faces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDDBL7jNew
I'm sure folk here will recognize one or two faces.
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:20 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: BOOM!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1000
Re: BOOM!
neat!
cool find.
cool find.
- Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:41 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Back to the Source" -- HEMA documentary
- Replies: 0
- Views: 301
"Back to the Source" -- HEMA documentary
Described as "A look into the world of Historical European Martial Arts, where a community revives centuries old martial arts based on the research and study of period source material. It's actually pretty good. I enjoyed it. It was interesting to see where the field has headed since I last played a...
- Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:51 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What's your favorite fighting video?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3131
Re: What's your favorite fighting video?
There was one from the 2006 Schola St. George Pas D'Armes in Dallas. I liked it because I was in it.
Unfortunately it was lost in a server crash of the SSG website a few years later.
Unfortunately it was lost in a server crash of the SSG website a few years later.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Understanding period manuals
- Replies: 17
- Views: 986
Re: Understanding period manuals
Indeed. Also some things don't work because, out of concern for safety (and, honestly, expense), we don't tend to use the correct equipment. Wood wasters, rattan batons, shinais, and so on just don't behave the same way as steel swords. They make it harder to bind the opponent's weapon, and moves wh...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:11 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: I made a tent!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3003
Re: I made a tent!
NICE!!
How long is that ridge pole?
How long is that ridge pole?
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:42 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Heavy Fighting: Questions From a Confused Outsider
- Replies: 62
- Views: 9388
Re: Heavy Fighting: Questions From a Confused Outsider
The evolution of an SCA fighter goes something like this. I call it the 5 stages of becoming a hater of SCA (or other armored combat group. Feel free to insert HEMA, LARP or other acronym). STAGE 1: The Honeymoon Mundane individual sees really cool demo/event/practice and decides "Hey I want to do ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:08 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Understanding period manuals
- Replies: 17
- Views: 986
Re: Understanding period manuals
But here is my problem. I look at many of the techniques in that video and think "That would be really stupid thing to try" There are several techniques that *only* have a chance because the 'opponent' is standing there and watching as the 'attacker' takes forever to do anything. .... I wanted to a...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:31 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Understanding period manuals
- Replies: 17
- Views: 986
Re: Understanding period manuals
But here is my problem. I look at many of the techniques in that video and think "That would be really stupid thing to try" There are several techniques that *only* have a chance because the 'opponent' is standing there and watching as the 'attacker' takes forever to do anything. I mean who thought...
- Sun May 03, 2015 4:56 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: medieval dead - Visby
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1444
Re: medieval dead - Visby
Hugh Prescott wrote:If you have not read the book on the Visby excavations it is worth a read. .
Vol. I of the 2-vol. 1939 edition is online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103290601/Arm ... y-1361-t-I
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:43 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Feature on BOTN 2013
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1307
Re: Feature on BOTN 2013
Corrected. Thanks.
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 6:59 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Feature on BOTN 2013
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1307
Feature on BOTN 2013
Not sure whether this has been mentioned yet:
VICE Media feature on the 2014 2013 BOTN, in which the USA team features prominently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbG_ktYFNPE[s][/s]
VICE Media feature on the 2014 2013 BOTN, in which the USA team features prominently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbG_ktYFNPE[s][/s]
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:55 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
Russ, go here http://anthro.amnh.org/pacific and enter armor as the search term. That'll produce a page with images of a number of items, including ones not on display to the public. A few of them have close-up and zoomable images of the knotwork.
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
And, some shark teeth-edged weapons from Kiribati:
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:20 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
From the Moro Sultanate (The Phillipines):
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:16 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
From Kiribati (Gilbert Islands):
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia
From Borneo:
At first I thought that the helmet was made from sea turtle scutes, but I think it could also be pangolin scales. It didn't have any notation accompanying it. (Are there pangolins in insular SE Asia?)
At first I thought that the helmet was made from sea turtle scutes, but I think it could also be pangolin scales. It didn't have any notation accompanying it. (Are there pangolins in insular SE Asia?)
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Re: Armour from Indonesia
From Celebes:
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:04 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
- Replies: 13
- Views: 927
Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands
I took these photos last week at the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
From Bali:
From Bali:
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:14 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Danish rchaeologists unearth 5k y.o. flint axe
- Replies: 6
- Views: 519
Danish rchaeologists unearth 5k y.o. flint axe
http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-flint-axe-near-roedbyhavn.11756.html "Thanks to the unique preservation conditions, we have found a lot of organic material during the digs. We had also found several special items such as an oar, two bows and 14 axe shafts, but when we found an...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:30 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Selling: Sharp Rondel Dagger *dropped price again* £35 ONO
- Replies: 8
- Views: 887
Re: Selling: Sharp Rondel Dagger *dropped price again* £35 O
That's beautiful. If you were in the US I'd take it off your hands in a flash at that price.
Good luck with the sale.
Good luck with the sale.
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:28 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Timid fighters..
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2930
Re: Timid fighters..
I've not done SCA combat but when I was training with the Schola Saint George, one of our foundations was Fiore's segno , in which he spells out the following: http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/liberi/images/sette_spada.jpg None can bring a more daring heart than me, a lion And I challenge anyone...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:54 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: HEMA Course in Italy (Padova) Oct. 18-19, 2014
- Replies: 0
- Views: 153
HEMA Course in Italy (Padova) Oct. 18-19, 2014
IL PROSSIMO EVENTO «ARMIZARE» SI TERRÀ A SAONARA (IN PROVINCIA DI PADOVA), SABATO 18 E DOMENICA 19 OTTOBRE 2014. L'evento avrà luogo nella prestigiosa sede di Accademia Cavalleresca, in Via Frassanedo 88 - 35020 - Saonara (PD). È possibile partecipare solo ad una delle due giornate al costo di € 25...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:43 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Never gonna do it without the fez on
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1249
Re: Never gonna do it without the fez on
Sorry... I just had to.
- Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:47 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: St. George Pas d'Armes at Great Western War
- Replies: 8
- Views: 864
Re: St. George Pas d'Armes at Great Western War
Is there any link to the 1990s' Company of St. George?
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:15 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: ww2 it is a ral monster!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 631
Re: ww2 it is a ral monster!
Cool find!