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Sword Fighting As It Was For the Vikings

February 9, 2013 / Education, Featured, Re-enactment
Views: 126,300

Watch this webisode and find more videos narrated by Colm Feore at http://www.museumsecrets.tv. Museum Secrets Season 3 – Premiere TV Broadcast in Canada Starts March 14, 2013! Broadcasts on History (Canada) on Thursdays at 9 PM; Fridays at 10 PM and Saturdays at 8 PM. Museum Secrets is a hit TV series and rich media website that travels to the world’s extraordinary museums, revealing the stories of irreplaceable treasures, probing familiar legends and assumptions, and using cutting edge research and [...]

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You Had to Be Strong Just to Wear the Armor as a Viking

February 9, 2013 / Education, Re-enactment
Views: 76,959

Watch this webisode and find more videos narrated by Colm Feore at http://www.museumsecrets.tv. Museum Secrets Season 3 – Premiere TV Broadcast in Canada Starts March 14, 2013! Broadcasts on History (Canada) on Thursdays at 9 PM; Fridays at 10 PM and Saturdays at 8 PM. Museum Secrets is a hit TV series and rich media website that travels to the world’s extraordinary museums, revealing the stories of irreplaceable treasures, probing familiar legends and assumptions, and using cutting edge research and [...]

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‘Vikings’ Official Trailer

December 19, 2012 / Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 37,992

While VIKINGS is filled with conflict, warfare and bloodshed — for these were extreme times — it is a family saga at heart. It follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel, The Beast, Baytown Outlaws), a curious, compelling man who is always looking to break through barriers and discover new worlds to conquer. A young farmer and family man, Ragnar is deeply frustrated by the unadventurous policies of his local chieftain, Earl Haraldson (Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment, Usual Suspects, [...]

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Deoringas at West Stow

October 28, 2012 / Education, Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 33,718

A short film about the Early Saxon Re-enactment Group Deoringas at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village over the weekend 10 – 13 August 2012

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Man-at-Arms

July 4, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 18,629

Man at Arms(c) is an 80 minute long DVD available from this site or Amazon being released in September 2012. It chronicles the effects of medieval warfare on the people who fought and suffered the effects of those wars. Aimed at a wide audience from British schools’ Key Stage Three to Post Graduate it is filled with dramatic reconstruction, modern experimental and forensic archaeology and medieval martial arts. from the effects of arrowshot to what it feels like to fight [...]

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Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne

May 30, 2012 / Education, Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 29,629

Promotional video for the Ancient Technology Centre in Cranborne, Dorset. For more details call 01725 517618. Produced and donated by ProMotion Media. http://www.promotionmedia.co.uk Search terms:ancient technology centrecranbourne archaeologykísérleti régészetcranborne old technology centreancient technology centre cranborneancient technology centre cranborne 2013ancient technology centre dorsetancient technology centre in cranbornenew technology centre dorset

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Llynnon Prehistoric Roundhouses – Construction

May 26, 2012 / Experimental, Featured, Re-enactment, Travel
Views: 42,812

How the Prehistoric Roundhouses at Llynnon Mill on Anglesey in Wales were built. For details about visiting the site go to: http://www.visitanglesey.co.uk/en-GB/llynnon-90.aspx Ancient Arts : http://www.ancient-arts.org/ to learn more and even get involved in an onsite course- UK Search terms:celtic roundhouse constructionceltic roundhouse angleseyconstructing celtic roundhousesconstruction of celtic roundhousellynnon rundhäuser

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Prehistoric copper smelting in a pit

May 26, 2012 / Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 33,148

How to turn copper ore into copper using Bronze Age techniques. Ancient Arts : http://www.ancient-arts.org/ to learn more and even get involved in an onsite course- UK Search terms:bakır eritmeréz olvasztásaصهر النحاسprehistoric smeltingكيفية صهر النحاسsárgaréz olvasztásaطريقة صهر النحاسvörösréz olvasztásolvasztás házilagrézhulladék olvasztás

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Sailing the Vaaler Moor logboat

May 20, 2012 / Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 28,880

The Vaaler Moor logboat is being tested in scale 1/20. This was part of the “Special Topics” class 2012 at the Maritime Archaeology Programme, University of Southern Denmark; Another seven boats were also tested. The original boat is at Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum at Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig. http://www.schloss-gottorf.de Search terms:sailing rock art boats

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Going for Bronze: Making a Reconstruction Pot

May 15, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 31,715

This film follows the making of a reconstruction trevisker ware bronze age pot, at a pottery on Dartmoor. The pot was commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter as part of the partnership exhibition ‘Going for Bronze’ with the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA). The finished pot can be seen at DNPA’s Postbridge Information Centre Easter – October 2012. The film is copyright DNPA 2010. For more information go to www.dartmoor.gov.uk Search terms:bronz készítése

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Ancient Stringed Instrument – Replica being played

March 30, 2012 / News, Re-enactment
Views: 19,898

Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Culture Fiona Hyslop has revealed a small wooden fragment that it is believed comes from a lyre. It has been burnt and broken, but the notches where strings would have been placed are easy to distinguish on the artefact. Experts believe the remains are of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe – dating to more than 2,300 years ago – at an excavation on the Island of Skye. Music archaeologists Dr Graeme Lawson [...]

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Students live like peasants!

March 26, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 23,910

Rather than Cavemen as they start the film with - ahem!!! These students live the life of Iron Age people in a smoky log hut built in Estonia. Five Estonian archaeology students have given up their laptops, music players and mobile phones for five days to live in a small hand-built log hut to see how their ancestors lived over 2000 years ago in winter in the Iron Age. All aspects of life back then have been copied to the [...]

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Roman legionary’s clothing, armour and equipment

March 10, 2012 / Education, Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 30,211

This is the English version of the previously posted Dutch clip. Placidus is a Roman soldier, stationed in the legion’s camp of Noviomagus along the Rhine. In this film he shows you the clothing, armour and equipment of the Roman legionary soldier in the first century AD. Search terms:legionista rzymskiroma kıyafetlerirómai páncélrömischer legionär ausrüstungromai katona jelmezvestimenta de soldado romanoローマ　鎧römische legionärskleidungroma askerlerinin kıyafetlerivestimenta de los soldados romanos

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Sword fight at 300 fps

February 5, 2012 / Re-enactment
Views: 14,993

A sword fight at a knight stunt show at 300 frames per second (FPS). Shot at Europa Park Rust, Germany. Shot with the Casio Exilim EX-F1. Search terms:300mbs fps3OOの剣A sword fight at a knight stunt show at 300 FPS Shot at Europa Park Rust Germany Shot with the Casio Exilim EX-F1laboratuvar malzemeleri zimetisword fps

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An archaeological cremation

February 4, 2012 / Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 19,529

Archaeologist Paul Duffy conducts an unusual experiment using a pig as stand-in for a human being (health and safety gone mad!). How will the remains compare with our ancestors’ bones after their bodies were cremated? It’s all part of the Discover Bute Family Midsummer Celebration at Scalpsie on the Isle of Bute Search terms:paul duffy archaeologyre enactment bronze age equipmentanglia news prehistoric reenactmentPAUL DUFFY ARCHEOLOGUEpaul duffy archaeologistyeniden canlandırma filmiviking armor reenactmenttv show enacting living in england year 1000roman legion reenactmentreenactment [...]

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