I'm back!!!
So, carrying on from yesterdays blog, where I told of the great
adventures the Eastbourne Ancestors team had, as we crossed the border into
unknown lands outside the Town Hall. I shall carry on with our journey and tell
of our new quest, the time we where we got the opportunity to mix with the
public and express and promote our morbid obsessions with the dead and the
skeletons we look afters history and relationship with Eastbourne.
But alas, we could not take on such a great and important task as this
on our own, so we called in the help, of Regia Anglorum. Over the bank holiday
weekend, many a Viking died at the hands of the Eastbourne Anglo Saxons and
Eastbourne lived to see another day relatively unscathed by the
Viking invasions.
Regia Anglorum, were amazing, they allowed
both the public and us (the Eastbourne ancestors) to get a feel on how these
people would have lived, and survived. It was also great, because, they got to
see the original versions of some of the things that they recreate for their outfits,
and therefore also helped us, to work out what some of the unknown items may
have been used for.
Hayley, our leader of the Eastbourne
Ancestors, also got the opportunity to be the 'living' corpse for a re-creation
of a viking ship burial.
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| The Dead Warrior would have been provided with all that they needed in the afterlife: A sword to protect her, A helmet, food and drinking vessels.
Our stall was a great success, and Stanley
the skeleton looked rather dashing, as he dressed in period costume, as Gloria,
the Anglo-Saxon. The Eastbourne Ancestors, where able to show a lot of the
local residents grave goods that were discovered at the site during 1997/98
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So the Eastbourne Ancestors
Project has continued to expand, what will we get up to next??
If you would like to know more about Regia Anglorum, then you can
follow the link below to their website, and see where they will be invading
next:
Until Tomorrow,
Maisie
Oh and, how could I resist...
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