[Sca-cooks] Sixteen Steps to Build an SCA Cooks Campfire

[Jeff Gedney]

>A small correction here. Charcoal was much more prominent by far,  
>however coal was being used by late period, especially in places like  
>Scotland where forests were in short supply.

depends on where and when... 
For Phlip's persona, she is probably correct. Trees were much more common in Roman era Britain, and much less by Elizaethan times. That is what is wrong with just tossing out the word "period" without qualifiers.


>There is also this snippet from the ship-measure-msg file, although  
>it doesn't provide a date:
> >>>
>Because it required nothing more than the gross overall dimensions,
>measurement in Tonnes became the generally accepted standard, and the  
>other
>measurements are infrequently used, except the Chaldron. That  
>measurement
>was generally limited to the traffic moving through NewCastle on Tyne or
>the port of Tynesmouth, where "NewCastle coal" or "sea coal" (because it
>originally was gathered up as it washed ashore after a storm) was  
>mined and
>shipped all over England, and to France. Coal was a staple of the
>"coasting" Trade, along with Salt, Salted Herring, "raw" cloth, and  
>Grain.
>"Coasting" is basically short range shipping practiced along the  
>coasts and
>waterways of England.

You are quoting me.

My main reference was: 
Williams, N.J.,  Maritime Trade of the East Anglian ports; 1550 – 1590, New York: Oxford University Press 1988.

You should consider that the time frame for that quotation.

Capt Elias
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(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

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- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue