The history of the Gemina Project

The Gemina Project was originally founded in 1986 by Paul Karremans, Peter de Haas and Maarten Dolmans as a Dutch counterpart of the British Ermine Street Guard. It's strength has grown over the years to a CENTURIO, a VEXILLARIUS, a CORNICEN, a SIGNIFER, an OPTIO, two auxiliary archers and a total of 18 ordinary legionaries. Every member of the society is required to produce his own equipment with the assistance of the more experienced participants. The Gemina Project also has a civilian group, which tries to reconstruct provincial Roman civilians by producing the appropriate clothes and artefacts. All materials used for reconstructions have to be those to which the Romans themselves had access to, such as leather, bone, wool, linen, felt, wood, plate-iron and bronze or brass. The use of modern materials as plastic and stainless steel is not allowed.

The history of LXG will be published very soon.