Chester Roman Festival V - Food and Drink

The Festival featured both a typical Roman kitchen and a Taverna, as well as other scenes of domesticity.

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Chester Roman Festival IV - Weaponry

Unsurprisingly, there were a great many weapons both on display and in use at the Festival, and if you really wanted to you could kit yourself out as a Roman gladiator.

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Chester Roman Festival III - Eagles

From 104 BC onwards, each legion used an aquila (eagle) as its standard symbol. The symbol was carried by an officer known as aquilifer, and its loss was considered to be a very serious embarrassment, and often led to the disbanding of the legion itself. Normally this was due to the fact that any legion incapable of regaining its eagle in battle was so severely mauled it was no longer combat effective.

 

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Chester Roman Festival II

The Roman potter was one of the most fascinating stalls, and the potter himself was very knowledgeable about the highly organised and industrialised way in which the Roman army provided itself with pots, clay ovens, mortaria, amphorae, etc.
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Chester Roman Festival

This weekend was Chester Roman Festival, and very impressive it was too. Re-enactors came from as far away as Sweden, and converged on Grosvenor Park and the Amphitheatre. There were many different stalls featuring all aspects of Roman life, from doctors to dancers, to dealers in grave goods and household shrines. But first, a few shots of legionaries.

 

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Chester Giants III

Ahead of the Chester Giants Festival next weekend, those giants keep popping up everywhere. This one was outside St John's Church.

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The Guild Hall

The Chester Guilds were early associations of craftsmen, forerunners of Trades Unions today. 
They ran  local government, by electing the 78 common councillors, and took responsibility for the welfare of their members and their families, and also put on the Chester Mystery Plays and the Chester Midsummer Watch Parade. Guildsmen had to attend meetings, often in local inns or in the towers on the city walls. No person of any 'arte, mystery syence, occupacion, or crafte' could 'intermeddle' or practice another trade.

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