Setting up camp: The shield wall.

Employing the dolabra to dig a hole for the pellum (training post).

Another view: Digging in.

Tyrannus conducting pellum drills.

Four hours later...

Gearing up for the opening parade.

A conclave of bearded legionaries. From left, Traianus, Diogenes, Darius, Flavius, Scaevola, and Magnus.

Camp flamen Diogenes offers prayers to Jupiter at the camp's altar.

Properly covered for the formal ceremony. The inscription is taken from an actual legionary altar in Britannia.

Gathering around the triclinium (dining table) for the evening meal.

Centurio and Praefectus (Julius Avinianus, in foreground) get the column ready to march.

Forming up in preparation for the opening march.

Stepping off for the opening parade.

Route march.

Waiting on the parade grounds at laxate (parade rest), Caius Man in right foreground.

A view through the ranks, Legio IX in background.

Legio VI before the Channel.

Having just set foot in Britannia, a vexillation of Legio VI pauses for a snapshot on the beach...

Passing in review.

In foreground, Legio VI Victrix; in background, Legio IX Hispana.

Other groups, other eras.

Red Company, portraying the army of Charles the Bold, ca. 1470.

Burgundian knights with the Channel at their backs.

I' it's not Scottish, it's craaaap!

Legio VI and Legio IX Hispana get together for a 20-man testudo!

Hibernicus, Centurio for Legio IX Hispana, watches the joint testudo form up.

VI Victrix and IX Hispana. The total of 25 legionaries Sunday was a record for Roman reenactors at a timeline event in the USA.

Shoulder-to-shoulder with Hispana.

Another view of the same lineup.

Draco the Younger with his dad, of the 23rd Royal Fusiliers.