Nice setup! My encampment has a nearly identical selection of brazier, cauldron, iron pots, and cook box...though I had a custom-made iron tripod built. But I do like his pot rack from branches, and his collection of wood and pottery bits. Verra nice. Stones! I hadn't thought about that...but a nice addition under the brazier. Thanks so much for sharing!
Ahh... I'm afraid if I wanted stones, I'd have to drag them along from home! That's where the tripod comes in handy. Dead easy to get it the required distance off the ground, on the hooks and chains. But the stones look right spiffy! I love the idea of using found objects! Nice. :)
Well, for many years we've joked about bringing soil to the isalnd, since it's bloody hard to put up tents with just 2 inches of dirt above the rocks. This camp ground is okay though, maybe four inches of dirt above the rocks ;)
Oh my goodness! That's funny...sort of... But I can relate to that. One of my very favorite venues here is out in the rain forest, by a beautiful river. Absolute perfection of dense woods and lees for camping, archery, etc. But...the soil is nearly solid with granite stones. Trying to sink an 18" iron stake for one's pavilion is almost impossible. I have damaged many a spike, and many, many portable holes in that ground. I empathize with your lack of soil! But krikey...4 inches? How do you do it??
I should mention though...that most of our sites are not like *that*. However...it is the one place that readily available stones can be had! Just not lovely big chunks as I see in the photo. These would all be smaller...about the size of potatoes, or baseballs, I should think.
I hae avoided the iron tripod for two reasons. The first one is that what I have works admirably (in and out of the SCA for the last 15 years). The second one is that my persona would never have seen the sense in spending a good chunk of money when what is essentially free does at least as good a job. Iron was not virtually free back then, it came with a price tag; wood grows on trees, and string only takes some time to produce (say an hour or two for all the string in that setup, I really should replace it with handtwisted cordage made from nettle, just to be anal).
The stones under the fireplace was needed (30 cm over ground according to a sign I saw), and the ones inside the metal pan improved the oxygen flow to the fire significantly. And yes, the metal pan would have been insane money 1000 years ago, but back then no one would have told me I could not dig a firepit due to county ordinances.
The pot hanging hooks are as undocumented as a north african refugee, but is plausible and works very well. Basically a scarf joint and a lashing.
I fully understand your rationale, and agree with it. I think it looks splendid. "Hand-twisted cordage, from nettle..."! That would be really grand!
As for Dame Eleanor (the persona, not me) "she spends most of her time at the court of Elizabeth I, as a confidante, lady-in-waiting, and a member of the Queen's suite, when not attending to her manor lands", so naturally, she enjoys a fair deal of comfort. Wrought iron was very much more readily avalable in my period...1575-90 England, so it works well for me, in that way. :)
And to braies or not to braies...just follow your bliss. ;->
Different social class and 600 years will do that. Interestingly, the high class personas have the most problems. I was talking to Master Arenvalt, and teased him about the fact that he must be a horrible master, since he had been unable to find one single servant who would stay with his household, never mind the half dozen or so he would have been expected to have with him even when *roughing* it in a camp. My persona could chop his own firewood and pitch his own tent. Even if it would have been womens work to cook the food, but since I'm what passes for a group campfire cooking guru...
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The stones under the fireplace was needed (30 cm over ground according to a sign I saw), and the ones inside the metal pan improved the oxygen flow to the fire significantly. And yes, the metal pan would have been insane money 1000 years ago, but back then no one would have told me I could not dig a firepit due to county ordinances.
The pot hanging hooks are as undocumented as a north african refugee, but is plausible and works very well. Basically a scarf joint and a lashing.
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As for Dame Eleanor (the persona, not me) "she spends most of her time at the court of Elizabeth I, as a confidante, lady-in-waiting, and a member of the Queen's suite, when not attending to her manor lands", so naturally, she enjoys a fair deal of comfort. Wrought iron was very much more readily avalable in my period...1575-90 England, so it works well for me, in that way. :)
And to braies or not to braies...just follow your bliss. ;->
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