Fuel
Firewood
Oak timber → Firewood
Picture to come.
Dead and fallen wood gathered for cooking and heating. Wood was the everyday fuel of 12th-century England, and access to it was regulated. Tenants often held customary rights, later called estovers, to take wood from the lord's land for particular needs; the right to gather dead wood for fuel was called firebote. Cutting living timber usually needed permission.
Caveats (confidence: high)
The term 'estovers' is 13th-century; the older Old English term was 'bote'.
Sources: worldwidewords.org
Made by
- Gather deadwood
- Hew an oak beam
- Hew a great oak beam
- Hew a common beam
- Hew a rough beam with stone tools
- Rive planks with wedge and hammer
Used to make
- Boil brine
- 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 a pit saw
- Forge a knife
- Forge a sickle
- Forge shears
- Make a wooden spade
- Make a pack saddle
- Forge an awl
- Forge a drawknife
- Forge a chisel
- Whittle a spindle
- 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