Scene props

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Morcant

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A separate thread for scene props ressources.

Here so far what Kolba have posted.

Kolba said:
List of scene props. Morcant, you can edit it if you have more ideas. I will post soon the pictures of these buildings.

tent - done, texture needs change
celtic cross - done
christian cross - done
watch tower - done
longhouse v.1 - done
longhouse v.2
hermitage
monastery
dried stone wall
small dried stone wall - done (vanilla)
monastic round tower
pictish house
briton house
gaelic house
saxon house
broch - done
currach
pictish boat
round house - done

Some reconstructions and plans of Northern British fortress:

Reconstruction of Birdoswald



Reconstruction of Bebbaburgh



Reconstruction of broch



Plan of Buistan Crannog



Plan of Burghead



Drawing of early medieval walls




3D Reconstruction of Dunadd



Plan of Dundurn and Dunadd



Reconstruction of Burghead



Reconstruction of typical Briton small town



Drawing of South Cadbury walls



Pictures of mentioned scene props:

Currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched.

FloatingCurraghBedford.JPG


Currach_Baltimore_Ireland.jpg



Hermitage. The photos are showing Gallarus Oratory in Dingle, which was built between the 6th century and 8th century.

Gallarusoratory.jpg


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dingle-gallarus-oratory2.jpg

Drawing of South Cadbury walls





Drawing of early medieval walls


This kind of timber-laced wall is most-needed stuff as it was the basic wall of most hillforts and promontory forts by that time. It is most often set on a bank (very important) so no stairs needed. The top is made by a wooden fighting plateform with a clay or wood palissade. The front of the wall shows the timberlace structure, and is either made of timber or drystones (both versions would be needed). The overall wall is not really high in most cases but quite large.

Here a reconstruction of Alt Cluit (Dumbarton) wall, with some dimensions.
rampartaltclut.jpg


Those three drawings can make a good basis for 2 versions (at least) of timberlaced walls. One of them also show the main doors of South Cadbury fortress which would be interesting to reproduce.

 
Banna/Birdoswald. This is a reocuppied roman fort, and several fortress like this will be featured ingame (Glanwent, Banna, Caer Urfa, Caer Wenddoleu, etc.).

It would require several new scene props, including:
- ruined roman buildings
- reused roman buildings
- timber hall
- damaged roman walls
- damaged roman towers and doors.

Note that ruined roman buildings and fortifications can be also very good for some battlefields, or near villages.

Reference pictures:
birdoswald.jpg

bannabirdoswald.jpg

 
Class-1 inscribed stones
Those stones can mark a few of the christian burials in monasteries and such. Several are known from Northern Britain. Here some exemples.

chrirostones.jpg

christianstoneandbaptis.jpg
 
Dry stone wall and nuclear fort

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On a soon to be published book, a good picture of a dry stone wall of a Pictish nuclear fort. Several of our forts are nuclear forts, this is also a really interesting feature to have.
 
Another ship, merchant ship of medium size that would well fit some shores and ports.

yassiada02.jpg

yassiada03.jpg

Drawing by Dan Shadrake, from his excellent book Barbarian warriors: saxons, vikings and normans.
 
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