[Sca-cooks] Cooking Tripods, Supports, Pompeii Brazier, fire height

[Sharon Gordon]

I'm looking for recommendations for places that make cookware supports for fire cooking such as tripods, spits, frames, firepans, etc.

How about metal cookware?  I have a hard time figuring out what is period and what isn't.  I mean some things are easy.  I know to give the iron corn shaped corn bread pan a pass :-).  

Also does anyone know of people making the Pompeii Brazier as shown here.
http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org/brazier.html
(but site is down today)
It's rectangular with iron rungs in a much wider spacing than a modern grill.
Ah, there are some photos of the brazier at the Apicius yahoo group
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Apicius/photos/browse/7511
And here are some photos of it being used for cooking
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Apicius/photos/browse/14dc
In the Pompeii brazier and cauldron photo, you can see how the rungs slide to change the spacing or in this case to use the rung side as a fire pit

For places that don't allow ground fires, what is the minimum height that the firepan needs to be above the ground?

Sharon
gordonse at one.net