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- Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:39 am
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: good viking website scholarly info and nice knives
- Replies: 0
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good viking website scholarly info and nice knives
Just found a couple of things that I thought may interest others. There is a thread running on the British Blades forum about replicas of Viking knives with photos of originals and some stunning replica sheaths here http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52230 and following a link from...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:30 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Carving Horn
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1236
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: On the Provenance of Prickers...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4353
This is an interesting discussion. I too would be very interested to hear about the context and frequency of archaeological finds. How many prickers have been found compared say to knives? I find the recreating of food and eating tends to rely heavily on the written sources and illustrations but thi...
- Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:55 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: CAN ANYONE HELP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2232
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:29 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: your favorit sites/buildings
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3789
My vote goes for Haddon Hall Derbyshire...not too big and grand like Chatsworth or too cold and harsh...I could live there. The best surviving Tudor Kitchen in the country (whatever they say at Hampton court) and simply incredible collections of early oak furniture. Any medievalist should plan to vi...
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:16 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: trenchers................and the square meal story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13067
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:21 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: trenchers................and the square meal story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13067
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:01 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: trenchers................and the square meal story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13067
- Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:13 pm
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: Public liability insurance ...help needed please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1216
- Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:27 am
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: trenchers................and the square meal story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13067
trenchers................and the square meal story
Square wooden trenchers are very popular, easy to make, cheap, but does anyone have any securely dated evidence for their use? You know the one about 3/4 inch thick by 7" square with a hollow turned for the food and another small one for the salt. I have yet to see an example from an excavation...
- Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:06 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It - Dorothy Hartley
- Replies: 18
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- Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:59 pm
- Forum: 2000BC-55BC
- Topic: otzi
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6912
otzi
This isn't my period but I am just getting interested in pre iron age technology particularly woodworking. i have been asked to make a copy of Otzi's axe handle and have a suitable yew crook for the job. I am looking for scale drawings or anything that will give me the length and diameter of shaft a...
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:43 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Drinking Bowls
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4433
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:40 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Drinking Bowls
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4433
sorry to resurect such an old subject but I have only recently joined the forum and may be able to add a little here. Pre conquest we find small globular drinking vessels made in wood and rarely glass. These die out overnight with the conquest to be replaced by drinking bowls...a Norman tradition an...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:12 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:13 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
tables and York inventories
Just got my copy of the York inventories and very interesting they are too though I suspect need reading with care. I was looking for Gregory's "humble husbandman" who owned tables and of the 5 husbandmen only one had recorded tables, he is by far the poorest of the five but still owning 4...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Medieval abrasives
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3008
Well I like to think of the surfaces as a different sort of smooth. A skillfuly hewn beam for instance can be as cleanly cut as a planed one, just when you look at it with the light coming from the side you can see the facets. The barber surgeons canisters from the Mary Rose are very cleanly cut but...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:41 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Medieval abrasives
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3008
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:38 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:32 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:27 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:48 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:31 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
I agree Jane. I am game for any amount of speculation, supposition, guesswork and discussion though I think it is always good to try to make it clear when we are making educated guesses and when we have hard facts to back them up. It's all to easy for me to make an educated guess and someone else to...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:52 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
I am very interested in this post and the discusion as to why potters didn't make plates (and virtualy no bowls for that matter) I am intrigued by this talk of guild rules, which guild exactly was stopping potters making plates? There is no guild of potters and the turners (of London) were only gran...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:08 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Medieval abrasives
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3008
- Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Medieval abrasives
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3008
I don't have clear evidence of abrasive use in woodworking before grinling gibbons in the 18th C. There is lots of evidence for lack of abrasive use, ie the majority of artefacts which today we would sand or plane such as wooden bowls and spoons, furniture parts and building timbers are left with a ...
- Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:22 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
yes interestign how many bowls are repaired. I would estimate around 5% of bowls I have seen have some form of repair ranging from huge iron staples to delicate silver wire stitching. What is interesting to me is that having stitched one bowl up with copper wire I found it takes longer to do a repai...
- Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:13 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: what did people eat from what did they drink from?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1843
research help
I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has copies of any other Household accounts or records of purchase refering to vessels...wooden, pot, metal or whatever. The commonplace items rarely show in inventories being of negligable value but if anyone has other primary source records I would...
- Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:21 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: what did people eat from what did they drink from?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1843
what did people eat from what did they drink from?
Perhaps I could share a little of my latest research presented in a paper to the medieval pottery research group. Pots are very important archaeologically because they always survive but this can skew our view of how numerous they were at the time. Medieval account books give a good measure of vesse...
- Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:08 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Which was more expensive?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6220
prices etc
here is a little research I presented in a paper to the medieval pottery research group. Pots are very important archaeologically because they always survive but this can skew our view of how numerous they were at the time. Medieval account books give a good measure of vessel usage as they record ev...