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Running a website is one thing, but about a subject which is across the sea is no easy matter! My interest in the Somerset and Wiltshire earthwork called Wansdyke (http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/) often relies on the kind help of visitors who live a lot closer to it than I do! Wansdyke Project 21 hopes to make Wansdyke better known by making all kind of information about it available through the interent (with great success, I might add). The ultimate goal is raising so much interest that any further damage can be prevented.
Born in 1964 (the year of the Dragon) in the old city of Amersfoort, The Netherlands, which is famous for its collection of single megalithic stones. I guess that's where it all started...
Today my wife Philippine and I live with our daughter Marrit (1997), our son Jeroen (2000) and our cat in the village of Houten, only a short distance from the Roman limes fortress once named Fectio/Vechten.
Maybe not surprisingly I grew up with a sense of history already present when I was very young. Books aplenty (my father had many books on local history), true historical ones but children's books as well. I guess something just had to rub off.. I still collect books 'n stuff for my growing Arthurian Collection (http://www.geocities.com/vortigernstudies/bibliograrth.htm), which I started in my childhood with the first books I read by Rosemary Sutcliff. Her 'Eagle of the Ninth' has truly set me on a course towards the enjoyment of Roman history in general and her 'Lantern Bearers' and especially 'Sword at Sunset' led me to the fascination of Sub-Roman Britain in particular. My main historical interest lies with the 5th century AD, and with the shady character named Vortigern. Infamous for letting in the English (well, alledgedly), his character has been damaged further ever since. Read more about him and the spots connected to him at Vortigern Studies (http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/).
Here, too, I first stumbled across Wansdyke..
Apart from my activities on the Internet I am a member of a small re-enactment group that bears the name of this fort I mentioned above, Fectio (http://www.fectio.org.uk/). Our basis is the aforementioned complicated period of those post-Roman times.
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