[Sca-cooks] what the Franks were eating

[Terry Decker]

It is an inventory of Charlemagne's property kept on the estate, not the 
personal property of the staff, so there may have been other towels not 
listed.  Since the towel is listed with coverings for one bed and one 
tablecloth, it suggests to me that these are the linens to be used for 
guests who were travelling light and fast, rather than households that would 
be supported by a baggage train.

Bear

> No, really. I went through the stuff in this inventory:
>
> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/800Asnapium.html which is keen also 
> for the other stuff in it- and not- only one towel? For the whole estate?
> Liutgard ;-)