Saxon re-enactment

Peter O'Sullivan on right, in monk's costume, supervised the proceedings.

Farm tools and weapons ready for the re-enactment.

Saxon farmers preparing to eat.

Saxons 'asleep'

News from the north

Battle lines at Stamford Bridge.

Danish carnage.

King Harold is briefed by the Saxon re-enactor.

News of invasion.

Norman bowmen at Hastings

Bowmen

'Arrow' enters Harold's eye

Harold carried off on shield

The village of East Meon has been around since early Saxon times. East Meon History Group participated in the Saxons in the Meon Valley project. Part of its remit is outreach to schools, and East Meon Church of England Primary School is taking part. At the Open Day, Peter O’Sullivan led a Saxon re-enactment taking children through the stages of farmers tilling their fields, eating, sleeping, taking an army to Stamford Bridge, where they defeated the Danish army, then back to Hastings where they lost, Harold being shot in the eye by a Norman arrow.