We have approximately 200 members. Particular concentrations of members are in Yorkshire, the North East and the South West. We take part in most Sealed Knot events across the country and have recently sent significant contingents to America and Ireland. In the Civil War Newcastle's were famous as the 'White-Coats'. The coat is made from white wool, buttoned with small wooden or leather buttons, or tied with tape.
Breeches are woollen and usually of a brown or russet colour.
Here if your web browser is Java aware. The role of the pikeman in the Civil War was to protect the musketeers from cavalry and to act as shock troops in infantry combat. All pikemen must wear a black painted steel helmet. Some of our pikemen wear armour of back and breast plates, and some wear leather buffcoats, although there is a continuing debate as to whether ordinary soldiers of the period would have worn buffcoats. The musket block night firing .