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Month: March 2018

Historical Reconstructions Part XII

Kelvin Wilson

Tomen Castell, the alleged birthplace (around 1172) of Llywelyn the Great, the most famous of the Princes of Gwynedd.

We found the road to have been built over piledriven stakes, thousands of them

weapons found buried with a 7th century warrior in the dunes near The Hague. The mullet is an accurate hairstyle for the period

The vicus of the fort near Utrecht on the occasion of emperor Hadrian's tour of the Roman border

The Roman Fort in Ockenburgh, Netherlands

The Mesolithic in the Netherlands 9,000 years ago

The Daunian culture existed in Italy in the Iron Age till such time it was assimilated by the Romans.

Some 1,500 years ago a band of hard men crossed the North Sea, into Britain, to raid, or steal someone's home

Rising up against imperial tax demands, Frisian rebels in the year 28 AD attacked Fort Flevum, but in successive waves were repelled by hastily fabricated slingshot

Raedwald of the Anglo-Saxons, the warrior-king whose grave when discovered in the 1930s showed the pagan Dark Ages had glittered with gold and jewels and his Queen

prehistoric seeress loosely based upon archaeological finds

On the northern edge of the empire, Roman engineers faced an enemy even they could not subdue long dark days filled with floods of ice

Neolithic settlement on the edge of a creek system, or how much of Holland looked like before

neolithic culture in the Netherlands of some 5,000 years ago. Note the bear cub who'd rather not be in the picture

indigenous woodsmen collecting wood for the Romans

From the archives magazine spread illustration of Vikings raiding the settlement at Zutphen

discovery of a 10,000 year old skull fragment on the Dutch coast, this illustration can be seen in the background

Dinas Emrys –Vortigern, a powerful ruler of Britain in the 5th century AD, was making a stand against Anglo-Saxon invaders.

Dinas Emrys – literally ‘The Fort of Emrys_ – that the enduring symbol of Wales, the red dragon, first emerged

depicts ships, merchants and dock-hands working the harbour of Sluis, the port once adjacent to Bruges, Europe_s 15th-century hub of culture and trade

Celtic men used white mud to streak their hair up, then took off their clothes before throwing themselves into battle.

Byzantine Turkey, and its underground cities

Burial at Kendrick_s Cave, near Llandudno in Wales, during the last Ice Age around 10,000 BC

Bronze Age farmstead, from the eastern Netherlands, of exceptional length

battle tower on top of the legendary hill of Dinas Emrys in Wales, 800 years ago

A view of the Roman Fort of Pons Aelius in around 250AD, looking towards the Headquarters buildings and the granary

A party at Sutton Hoo. Mead, mussels, and a one-man band

A medieval village near Dordrecht, washed away by floods - featuring dozens of small tools found in the mud, and several people from its swamped graveyard

A gathering to burn the chief. Old illustration on Anglo-Saxon rites of grief and glory

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12th century Castell Prysor, North Wales.

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Neolithic farnsteads of Haamstede-Brabers, Holland

On the Rhine border, 150 A.D. the carpenter pays a visit.

early neolithic settlement, 5,500 years ago

The Hague build a pyre of wood on their beach, and to celebrate the dawn of life in a new year, burn it down. Fifteen hundred years earlier their ancestors did the same.

In ancient Greece open air shows used cranes to hoist actors into the air, providing the special effects the audience could look up to, and believe larger than life.

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I was lost in this artist illustrations long into the night. I wasn’t sure at first how I would categorize his pieces. But after a while of studying them I think its best they go under historical reconstructions. If you want to find more of his work you can find him here.

Posted on March 21, 2018April 3, 2018Author eo81Categories Historical Reconstructions Leave a comment

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