Re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings, this year being a larger than average event with over 1000 warriors on the battlefield and 300+ authentic tents and awnings in the living history encampments.

See English Heritage website for full details for spectators :- http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/1066-battle-of-hastings-abbey-and-battlefield/?gclid=CML5zvD05LICFQ_MtAodoUIAPg

Re-enactors registration is now closed. The Vikings will issue final instructions to reenactment societies and groups who have registered attendance at the event.

6pm -9pm, display of weapons and artefacts, and have-a-go crafts in the gallery; 7pm - 7:30pm, public talk with vikings in conversation with curator around the painting A Viking Funeral by Sir Frank Dicksee, 1893.

this show has been postponed

We spend a week in the Anglo Saxon Village as a 6th Century extended family group. We live in the reconstruction houses, cook and eat together in the hall. We have opportunities to try crafts, including those that take a bit longer than you get at a weekend show. We may try a few fairly gentle Anglo-Saxon sporting challenges. The site also has a forge and bread oven.