Ancient Roman gardens and agricultural tools

I spoke before of the Labyrinth through time antique reenactment project planned for 2017 at Camp Virtus near Cluj-Napoca. Though a bit delayed by the Romanian authorities who take their time actually signing the contract and delivering the funds, the first research activities are fully under way. The members of the Virtus Antiqua NGO are doing their homework by documenting several types of ancient artifacts and features, preparing for the reenactment activities with volunteers.

The first topics are the Roman garden and Roman agricultural tools - read about them in Romanian on the project's website HERE and HERE and see the Pinterest albums on these topics:

- Reconstructions of Roman gardens

- Roman agricultural tools  

Stay tuned for more news on the project!

 

Pinterest album Roman gardens

Pinterest album Roman tools

 

Building a Dacian house

Building a reenactment park is no easy business - finding the accurate historical information, getting the appropriate plot, convincing people to get involved. The next step is equally difficult: getting the money to actually start building. Camp Virtus, in Salicea, near Cluj, is at that point in time, thus the recent fundraising event - The Dacian Party. Funds obtained during the event will go for one of the objectives at the camp, namely the Dacian house. Other objectives are generally antique or even outright Roman, as the park is focused on Antiquity in general in present-day Transylvania - a forge, a bread oven, a pottery kiln, a pit house and possibly a long house as well or Roman watchtower and barracks.
The model of the Dacian house will be selected according to available funds from a number of plans and descriptions obtained through archaeological excavations. Graphic reconstruction will also be employed, such as the recent ones published by Radu Oltean.

Feel free to join the party on August 20th, have fun and donate if the project catches your imagination! We are also looking for sponsors and volunteers, so beware, you might be placing the wattling a l'antique soon!

Models of ancient Dacian houses

Chef dacic- the Dacian party

This is the only such initiative in Cluj, but several others seem to be ongoing in Romania, to a relative degree of success and authenticity. Other such "unique" projects are under way in:

• Ohaba Sibisel, in Retezat, building a Dacian village, Sargetia
• Draganesti, Olt
• neo-Dacian houses Arsenal Park Tigoarea
• Christian-Dacian village built by a priest in Naeni, Buzau 
• not updated for 3 yrs - village in Serbeni, Mures
• theoretical project in Cugir, under discussion