The gilded gryphon beckons all to join in and celebrate the gold of the ages! Test your skills at combat and crafts, join in the pageantry, feasting and frivolity at Politarchopolis’s premier event.
Politarchopolis, 28-30 November.
Location: Bungendore Showgrounds, 71 Matthews Lane Bungendore, NSW.
Ticket Prices
Cost Per Adult Member:
Full Event $110.00
Saturday + Sunday $95.00
Friday night only $15.00
Saturday daytime $65.00
Sunday $35.00
Cost per Child Member (<18): $0
Price after 16 November and at Gate add $10.
Non members (Adults) add $10 (Children) add $5.
Camping $15 per tent, $25 powered site.
Contact: Steward: Countess Beatrice (fieldsofgold@politarchopolis.lochac.sca.org)
Bookings: fill out this booking form!
Price Rise: 16 November
Draft Timetable:
Friday 28th November
12:00pm Site Opens, Cars allowed for setup
3:00pm Equestrian Practice
6:30pm Soup Kitchen
7:00pm Games
8:00pm Glowstick Archery
Saturday 29th November
7:00am Breakfast
10:00am Opening Court
10:30am A&S / Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
12:30pm Lunch / Market
1:30pm A&S / Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
7:00pm Feast
9:00pm Tavern Bransles & Luting / Traditional Bird Impression Comp
Sunday 30th November
7:30am Breakfast
9:30am Morning Court
10:00am A&S / Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Closing Court
3:00pm Event close
About Fields of Gold
At Fields of Gold there will be many enjoyable activities – armoured combat, rapier combat, target archery, equestrian skill at arms, classes on period arts and sciences, the Crown and the Baronage holding court, good food, and frivolity.
This is a garbed event. If you are new to the society please contact our Hospitaler (hospitaller@politarchopolis.lochac.sca.org) to arrange for loan of clothing and utensils.
Contact the bookings officer if you have any questions before the event.
Volunteering
Our events run on the labour of volunteers. Please ask at the sign-in desk if you would like to help out. There are many easy and enjoyable tasks, such as making announcements, helping serve meals, helping run activities, washing dishes, and packing up the site at the end of the event.
Accommodation
There are not any dorm rooms or bunk houses at this site, but camping on site is available. Or stay in nearby Bungendore. Or Canberra is only half an hour away. If you have travelled far and would like to stay with a local SCA member and you do not know anyone local, please mention this when booking.
The site has toilets and showers.
Food
Event is fully catered with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meals provided from Friday night to Sunday lunch. If you have a special dietary requirement please advise when booking.
Off-board tickets are also available. There is a small outdoors kitchen available at the campsite for use by campers. If you are planning to provide your own cooking set-up please check whether there are any fire restrictions in place that may impact you.
Amenities
The closest shops are in Bungendore, a short drive from the site.
The closest hospital is in Queanbeyan.
Disabled facilities
The site is Bungendore Showgrounds. This site is remarkably flat but mostly unpaved ground. A standard wheelchair may struggle, but scooters will be fine. Indoor areas are concreted or have floorboards. There are ramps and hardly any stairs.
There is a permanent disabled toilet.
Merchants
Permanent merchants will be set up throughout Fields of Gold. Plus there will be limited-time Markets on the Saturday during lunch. If you wish to be a merchant, please advise when booking or contact the steward.
*****Draft Menu (subject to change)*****
Soup Kitchen
- Braised beef in red wine
- Chickpea stew
- Rice
Breakfasts
- Porridge or cereal,
- Bacon and eggs
- Fresh bread
Saturday Lunch
- Roast beef
- Fried pumpkin with caraway
- Mustard and/or Lemon & rosemary sauce
- Boiled eggs
- Fresh salad
- Cheese, bread, and fruit
Afternoon Tea
- Fruit and biscuits
Feast: Wandering Slowly Northward
First Course
- Fried halloumi with honey
- Olives
- Himmas (hummus)
- Skewers (chicken, or vegetarian)
- Green salad
- Pumpkin tourte
- Flatbreads
Second Course
- Smoked pork (or chicken) roast
- Fried pease pudding
- Pancakes
- Cheese tart (for high table)
- Sour cherry sauce
- Mustard & braised garlic
- Broccoli with garlic oil
- Red pickled cabbage salad
- Fried carrots
Dessert
- Strawberry tarts
- Dry snowe / vegetable cream
- Wafers and lozenges
- Cherries and seasonal fruit
- Gingerbread
Sunday Lunch
- Leftovers feast supplemented
- Sorbet to finish
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A&S Competitions
Fields of Gold is the time where the office of the Baronial A&S Champion changes hands. This year there will be 2 competitions running concurrently. From these entries, their Excellencies will have an opportunity to select the new Baronial A&S Champion.
# 1. The traditional Fields of Gold themed competition allows for you to enter anything gold in nature – be bright, be bold, be gold!
# 2. As the outgoing champion I ask that your entries for the second competition meet a single criterion. This craft must be something new to you. Something that you never tried before and have taken up since the last Fields of Gold. The item does not need to be completed but we would love for you let us know what has drawn you to this new craft, what sparked your passion, if you have made any changes to accommodate your abilities or resources. Share your inspiration, draw us into your dream.
Oh! And you can enter the same item in both competitions, there will be forms available to indicate this.
Participants are reminded that if they are unwell or showing cold or flu-like symptoms, they must not attend.