Roman holiday

Youngsters take part in a Bank Holiday Roman drill as the invading forces returned to a Yorkshire market town to mark 1,600 years since they departed British shores.

The Roman festival staged at Orchard Fields, near Malton in North Yorkshire included javelin throwing, drills by gladiators and legionaries and displays of period costume. It came to a climax with a mock battle between re-enactors dressed as Roman troops and Celtic warriors.

There was also a living history camp to recreate what life was like for a civilian living in a Roman fort as well as a Bronze Age hunter-gatherer settlement.