Wood
Ash poles
Picture to come.
Straight young stems cut from coppiced ash, whose stools were cut back on a regular rotation to regrow a crop of poles. Much of the value of medieval woodland lay in such small wood rather than big timber. Ash poles served for tool handles, fencing, hurdles and firewood, and larger poles could be split or shaped for cart parts and other woodwork.
Sources: blog.metmuseum.org
Made by
- Fell timber
- Cut coppice
Used to make
- Boil brine
- Charcoal burn
- Bole-smelt lead
- Fire pottery
- Fire bricks
- Fire tiles
- Burn lime
- Render tallow
- Bake
- Malt and brew
- Brew (alehouse, half batch)
- Boil pitch
- Make a stone hammer
- Forge an axe
- Forge a pick
- Forge a pit saw
- Forge an iron hammer
- Forge a knife
- Forge a sickle
- Forge shears
- Forge a spear
- Make a wooden spade
- Make a pack saddle
- Make a yoke
- Forge an awl
- Forge a drawknife
- Forge an adze
- Forge a chisel
- Forge a scythe
- Forge a billhook
- Whittle a spindle
- Split ash bow staves
- Shave arrow shafts
- Shave ash spokes
- Cut felloes
- Lash up crude bellows
- Bole-smelt lead from dressed ore
- Smelt tin in a peat hearth
- Fire glazed pottery
- Smelt lead at the ore hearth
- Smelt lead from dressed ore at the ore hearth
Used to build
- Charcoal clamp