Conroi du Burm - Historical Accuracy

We aim to give as authentic a view of life in the period being depicted as we can, commensurate with modern health and safety considerations.

Some re-enactment and living history groups insist on unequivocal documented authenticity - you must have three museum examples plus a note from your great great great..... great great grandmother saying it was actually done or made in a particular way.

• While primary and/or documentary evidence is strongly prefered, we are prepared work on "some evidence plus the balance of probability".
• Contrary to what some people may think, our ancestors were not stupid. Their technology was somewhat limited compared to ours, but if we can work out a way of doing things, so could they.
• Most available documentary evidence relates to the great and good - little relates to the commoner or man in the street.
• In order to give the correct "feel", we are prepared to make some small compromises. All reenactment and living history groups do this to some degree (e.g. our swords are not sharp, we do not hand forge our own nails, shear our own sheep, weave our own cloth).
• "Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence".

"As, to date, no primary evidence has been discovered confirming that sex actually took place during the high medieval period, we must assume that procreation of the species took place via some other, as yet undetermined, method."