Discover the Romans at Bosworth Battlefield Saturday 20th July - Sunday 21st July 2019

Discover the Romans at Bosworth Battlefield

Saturday 20th July - Sunday 21st July, 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

The BATAVI will be taking part in the Bosworth Battlefield Centre's first Roman event!

Whilst hunting for the Medieval battle site, metal detectorists came across  a large number of Roman brooches and other finds. These dated mainly from the 2nd to early 5th centuries AD. This lead to the discovery of a Temple, probably to Mars, on the site. This event is the first to promote the Roman aspects of the area.

The BATAVI will have a small camp with displays on late Roman military & civilian life and our famed food & cookery display.

There will be a presentation on the equipment of the Roman soldier covering the 2nd century, the 3rd century & the 4th/5th centuries, showing how the army & its role developed of the Roman period.

New recruits of all ages can learn Roman Drill & some Celtic supporters of Boudicca will be stirring up trouble!

There will also be talks on Roman religion, temples & religious sites in Leicestershire, the possible site of Boudicca's defeat and the latest finds from Roman Leicester.

Items, especially the "horse & rider brooches" found at the local temple site can also be seen in a small exhibition.

The official webpage for the event can be found here

Friends of Jewry Wall Museum Roman event - Sunday 29th July 2018

Friends of Jewry Wall Museum Roman event

Sunday 29th July 2018

The BATAVI and other Roman groups will be taking part in the Friends of Jewry Wall Museum Roman event 

to be held at Saint Nicholas’ church 

and the grounds of the Jewry Wall museum 

in the heart of Roman Leicester..

The Jewry Wall museum, itself, is currently closed for a major

refurbishment but their Friends group have continued a series of

events to keep the museum in the public mind.

The event is free and runs from 11.00am to 4.00pm

See you there!

The BATAVI are a small, friendly group who re-enact military and civilian life in the 4th to 6th centuries A.D.

Our military activities are based around a late Roman army unit, the Batavi Iuniores Britanniciani, which may have been formed in Britain in around 367 A.D. They then moved to join part of the mobile Gallic field army and are last recorded in central Gaul in the 420s A.D.

We also have a small late Roman Navy section, the Classis Sabrinae, and a civilian wing which displays everyday life, crafts and cookery from the period.

We have currently members in the Midlands and South of the UK.