Saturday 28 May 2011

Sealed Knot - Battle of Newbury

Today we went along to the re-enactment of the second Battle of Newbury in 1644. I have always wanted to go to a Sealed Knot event and I finally made it! It's great to be able to talk to the living history people on site about what life would have been like.

 This lady was making lace, she told us it takes about an hour per inch of lace.
 Here is one of the Pikemen, their pikes were often 18ft long, they told us that this was one of the last few battles which would have used pikemen in the frontline.
 N with a musket!
 and a pike, probably the first pikeman to be wearing pink shoes!
 Period glasses; quite a few of the living history people were wearing these, N thought they were very cool.

We also met a lady using a Lucet, and she showed us how cord (to tie up corsets etc) would have been made. It was very similar to french knitting and a type of anglo saxon weaving we have done previously. Anyway N is very keen to purchase a Lucet in the very near future! 

There was also a lady making griddle cakes, she told us that a typical soldier would have eaten 8000 calories a day (mostly in bread).
 Battle scenes from afar; musket fire was all a bit much for N and we made our way back to the car.
But we did spot these before we left :)

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