[Re: [Re: PE - Re: Angles large oval wedge?]]

[Wendy Freeman/Otte]

Ahh - I just made a discovery - there is an ongoing argument over the shape of
this tent.  Here is the issue: look at the two versions of the Anglo-Saxon
Geteld.
<http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/taxonomy.html>

Actually, the one I saw had the ridgepole on the inside, but looked more like
the second Geteld tent shown, with the bell ends.

Still, the issue of a medieval reference is an open question - where did
*these* gentles get their sources?

--Wyllow

Wendy Freeman/Otte <wyllow at netscape.net> wrote:
> Sven, you caught me - I have no reference.  The gentle (I think it was Toli,
I
> know it was someone from MagMor, Calontir) who built the large oval tent had
a
> reputation as an excellent researcher, and I took him at his word.  My web
> search, triggered by your challenge (and rightly so) has produced no
obvious
> results.  So, can anyone help me find the reference I am sure exists?
> 
> Here is what I remember from my conversation with him, 4 years ago - it is
an
> Anglo, Saxon, or both tent from ?before 1000AD?.  It uses no ropes,
depending
> on the cloth of the tent to hold it up - the roof & sides are one cloth. 
Its
> shape is more like a huge pup tent, with bells closing either end, and a
slit
> cut into the middle of one side for the door.  It resembles the *roof* of
the
> french two-bell, reaching to the ground, although the pitch of the roof is
a
> lot steeper.
> 
> Mira, did you have a reference/picture for the Bell wedge?  The timeperiod
> doesn't match, but the description does.
> 
> --Wyllow MacMuireadhaigh
> 
> "Mira (Tanya Guptill)" <tguptill at teleport.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Stephen Wyley wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Wendy,
> > >
> > > I am yet to come across such a tent as you describe.
> > >
> > > Can you quote your reference for this Angles large oval wedge?
> > 
> > It looks to me like it is the earlier form of a bell wedge, with the slit
> door, ala
> > Tudor period.  If I'm correct, you see a lot more of these in period than
> the
> > so-called French Bells (more common American Civil War, door is
different,
> althoug
> > there is evidence of the awning/door in Coburg in the mid 1600s).
> > 
> > Mira
> > 
> > Mira
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Bye for now,
> > >
> > > Sven
> > > (Stephen Francis Wyley)
> > > Fortifications (Dictionary of Military Architecture, etc).
> > > http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/index.html
> > > Archery, Arms, Armour, Chests, Tents, Trebuchets,
> > > Vikings, Woodwork.
> > > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/index.html
> > > Arrow Fletching, Turbow Longbows & Yoretymes Emporium of History
> > > http://svenskildbiter.webjump.com/index2.html
> > >
> > > On 2 Oct 00 08:56:11 CDT   Wendy Freeman/Otte wrote:
> > > >The Angles had a one-person-to-raise tent - it was a large oval wedge
> with a
> > > >slit door in the center of the long side.  You peg all of the sides
down
> > > >first, then take the two poles into the tent, and raise the roof, one
> pole at
> > > >a time.  No ropes - all based on tension.  Very few seams, so good for
a
> rainy
> > > >climate.
> > > >
> > > >One problem - I think its timeperiod of use was 700-900AD, maybe
> earlier.
> > > >
> > > >--Lady Wyllow of the Loch
> > >
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> > >
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