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How to wash dishes (and stay alive!) in the Iron Age
I have worked many years on Iron Age and Historical food, from cooking techniques and ingredients availability to .. doing the washing up, the ancient way!
I've been taught and used these methods for the five years I spent working on a Tudor living history farm, where cooking and washing as it was done historically was part of our everyday tasks.
Absolutely ZERO problems, certainly no food poisoning, mould growth on something etc etc ... and it was hands down our visitors' favourite display of the day.
I tested, adapted, used and now added to this video a few of my own practices when I portray life on Iron Age Britain or Gaul.
Everything is based on traditional practices, sometimes mentioned, sometimes used by grandparents and passed down the generations.. but all keep in mind what was available and possible at the time in terms of plants, materials, utensils, knowledge etc.
So if you do living history displays and fancy presenting a new topic, trust me, doing the dishes is a brilliant, very engaging and educational topic!
If you just fancy a look: enjoy!
*** NOTES ***
- the material used to wash the metal dish is a plant called Field Horsetail in the UK (Equisetum Arvense, Latin name). It's a "prehistoric plant", full of silica so very gritty and great as a scrubby pad! It's plentiful in many places (definitely where I live and have lived) and NEVER. DIES. It's an incredible plant. check it out to see if you have some where you live!
- I turned the comments section off as I don't have the time to read them and answer potential questions. So to avoid never answering a query as I would miss it here, I chose to not have comments and let people email me if something is important!
- VIDEO MADE BY AND FOR "BUTSER PLUS",
an online video platform by Butser Ancient Farm that offers heaps of short films about crafts on prehistory, from building a roundhouse to a sneaky peak at their amazing yearly Beltaine Festival.
check them out on www.butserplus.com for less than a coffee, or a monthly donation if you feel like supporting this brilliant site in the UK.
- When is the Iron Age?
''Iron Age'' in Britain is usually 800BCE to 43CE, date of the Roman conquest by Claudius. In France, 800BCE-52CE (battle of Alesia and Roman conquest).
For me... well... there is a very early iron ring found in Scotland dating back to 900BCE, and I consider 52BC as the ''end'' of the Iron Age as I come from France myself!
So here: 900BCE to 100BCE is what I research mainly in terms of ''Iron Age'' life. Before much Roman contact with Britain. But eh, each to their own ;)
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Cleaning a wooden table the Medieval/ historical / natural way!
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Speedy video recorded while cleaning the set we used to film the episode about Medieval baking, brewing, cheese and butter making in "What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times", with Dr Eleanor Janega @eleanorjanega1944 for ‎@HistoryHit ! (filmed at Little Woodham Living History Village, southern England, spring 2023) Want to clean, I mean CLEAN, a wooden table, board, even plank, b...
What did Iron Age women wear? (cir. 300-200BCE, NW Europe / Britain)
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After many questions and chats, here are the two examples of Iron Age clothes I use myself when portraying crafts and life around 300-200BCE, both based on finds from a bog in Denmark (original in Mational Museum of Denmark): the Huldremose Woman's ensemble. (a woolen skirt, a woolen shall, 2 sheepskin cloaks that I don't have replicas of yet AND an undertunic made of vegetal materials, be it l...
Paintbrush making: feather + twig (natural / historical / ancient paintbrush)
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This is how I make really quick natural paintbrushes from foraged / found materials: a feather (wood pigeon here) a twig (willow here, but I often use hazel, silver birch...) shaped with my replica Iron Age knife* WASH THE FEATHER FIRST! (I soak them in very diluted bleach for a while, rinse, dry) *(recreated from an archaeological find from Danebury hillfort, Southern England, 2nd - 1st centur...
Making wattle and daub walls on a replica Iron Age roundhouse - daubing
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Wattle is the woven Hazel (it could be willow or other wood) branches structure of the wall, that will disappear when finished under the layer of daub. Daub is a mix of clay, chopped straw and sand, here. It could contain animal dung or hair or other fibres, but it's not necessary. This mix doesn't contain more than these 3 ingredients. Daub is applied on both sides of the wattle wall at the sa...
Ancient Skills 2: iron knife / blade (historic replica!) maintenance. Part2/3 : polishing & shinning
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Part 2 of 3 for these little videos that weren't really meant to go on UA-cam, but as many followers asked... Here they are! This 2nd one shows how to polish and clean an iron knife blade* using a finer sandstone and -wait for it- powdered egg shells vinegar!! I learnt this technique in a Tudor farmhouse (16th century), but that can apply to much earlier time periods: malt vinegar is a biproduc...
Ancient skills 1: Washing a chopping board properly, the Iron Age way (and through history!)
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''How did Iron Age people wash their chopping boards?'' someone asked me. Well, here's an answer. This applies to pretty much all other periods of history (for you reenactors, living historians, archaeology lovers) ... but also to modern kitchens and outdoor cooks! It is CHEAP, EASY, NATURAL and honestly quite fun to do. (Kids love it!) This works with wooden ustensils mainly! There are many ot...
Iron Age cooking courses at Butser Ancient Farm - Caroline's interview
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We run Iron Age Cooking courses in various places, including Butser Ancient Farm (UK), where there are wonderful reconstructed roundhouses! Here's a short interview introducing the courses that were planned in Spring 2020 (but should now run later in the year) and where Caroline chats about..ancient food and things!
Ancient foods: foraging & cooking nettles at home! (with archaeology bits!)
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Nettles have been around since Prehistory. We mention Must Farm Archaeology with their 3000 years old find of a nettle stew (!), and some fun historic facts. This is how to pick stinging nettles safely and make a bacon and nettle omelette in your modern kitchen (kids can do it too!).
Ancient Foods : making fresh cheese at home! (+ History facts)
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How to make cottage / fresh cheese easily at home... Plus a bit of history. Kids can do it!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @RomaInvicta202
    @RomaInvicta202 9 днів тому

    People have crushes on famous actresses, I have mine on a French experimental archeologist :)

  • @rahannneon
    @rahannneon 10 днів тому

    How I was taught to make butter by my Amish grandmother. She used to say that milkmaids have the softest hands. Al

  • @Mona...134
    @Mona...134 13 днів тому

    Great Video, thank you. I thought the peplos was greek?

  • @E_FoxSnowspirit
    @E_FoxSnowspirit 19 днів тому

    Fascinating!!!! This ancient society was so wonderfully economical and took such care because of their handmade fabrics… it’s honestly inspirational

  • @LisaG442
    @LisaG442 22 дні тому

    How on earth could a woman breast feed with those tunics with no chest openings?? You’d have to get completely undressed. I’m having trouble believing this clothing would be used by a nursing mother, which to be honest would be all the time for all married girls

  • @FlyingDog2332
    @FlyingDog2332 28 днів тому

    This worked so well! Thank you for the tutorial!

  • @YeshuaKingMessiah
    @YeshuaKingMessiah 28 днів тому

    Waste SALT on this?! Sand surely! How did ppl have $ for salt to waste, not eat

  • @sara_sofia_1984
    @sara_sofia_1984 Місяць тому

    I like this way of dressing! It's like wearing blankets on you, cozy!

  • @madder6218
    @madder6218 Місяць тому

    Thankyou ladies and team for a joyful and informative video. I learnt alot and hope to take something from it to use practically.

  • @jacquie3349
    @jacquie3349 Місяць тому

    Brilliant! Perhaps for an Iron Age belt- try making one with a Lucet (2 prongs) - using french knitting technique which is the same as a simple loom band (though not with elastic bands obvs) just made out of wool. I saw this in a museum when the loom band craze was happening back in 2015/16. The museum said it was an Iron Age/viking age technique for belts and bag straps. Hope this helps and thank you for an excellent video! :)

  • @user-ye8uo1jy3m
    @user-ye8uo1jy3m Місяць тому

    I appreciate all this video. What's distracting is some people complaining about the music. Thank you for the video again. ❤ God bless you.

  • @marybillups4822
    @marybillups4822 Місяць тому

    Can I make butter with the heavy cream from the grocery store?

    • @RomaInvicta202
      @RomaInvicta202 9 днів тому

      Yes, most of the people these days don't have access to fresh milk; I use double cream (heavy cream in US), works fine

  • @yuhuie
    @yuhuie Місяць тому

    What is the common types of food eaten, and how common was alcoholic drinks imbibed and what kinds, if you don't mind me asking?

  • @rebekahellenburg8369
    @rebekahellenburg8369 Місяць тому

    this has me wondering could i clean my floors like this

  • @Bella-fz9fy
    @Bella-fz9fy Місяць тому

    Wow,I can't believe people in Suffolk in 75 BC were wearing such bling😅Seriously though,those torque necklaces were wonderful!

  • @kikab1695
    @kikab1695 Місяць тому

    Je viens de découvrir votre chaîne! J’aime beaucoup ces simples recettes! J’espère que vous pourrez en publier d’autres. Merci!

  • @itsme4693
    @itsme4693 Місяць тому

    The pins on her shoulders , that keeps her clothing together, are beautiful. I always use , what called, Scottish pins..

  • @isobelmckenzie-price8813
    @isobelmckenzie-price8813 Місяць тому

    This is exactly how I was taught to make butter by my grandmother on our farm in Suffolk. If you're from the US, you can use heavy cream (I lived there for a while and it's the same as 'double cream'). We simply left the fresh milk from our cow to stand overnight in a bowl so that the cream floated to the top, and then skimmed it off with a spoon, which is how I guess it would have been done back in the Iron Age. We used butter pats to shape and curl the butter for fancy occasions

  • @janinecobb
    @janinecobb Місяць тому

    Great instructions, with a sense of humour, love it! 🧀 💛

  • @shuvanidev
    @shuvanidev Місяць тому

    This is brilliant!! Thank you. I'd like to also know how to do the head wrap.

  • @lesliewells-ig5dl
    @lesliewells-ig5dl Місяць тому

    What type of fabric is the tunic undervthe wool clothes?

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 Місяць тому

      I’m betting nettle or linen

    • @lesliewells-ig5dl
      @lesliewells-ig5dl Місяць тому

      @@magesalmanac6424 Thanks. I was thinking probably linen. You can make cloth from nettles. I didn't know that. Very interesting!

  • @dvorak920289
    @dvorak920289 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the cleaning tips! Question: how do I clean the brush I used for cleaning all this? Or is that step not important for the overall kitchen hygiene? Confused in 21st century cleaning habits😅

  • @mrssibelius
    @mrssibelius Місяць тому

    Great. No background music needed though!

  • @juliebarrett943
    @juliebarrett943 Місяць тому

    This music is HIDEOUS. I was really interested in this video content, and couldn’t get past the totally distracting, incongruous Muzak.

  • @etm567
    @etm567 Місяць тому

    Is she speaking English?

  • @merryhunt9153
    @merryhunt9153 Місяць тому

    As a person who sews, I am amazed at the size of the wool pieces. They seem to have been woven on an enormous loom, even the checked oval with its single seam. Interesting! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

    • @lady_sir_knight3713
      @lady_sir_knight3713 Місяць тому

      I suspect the fabrics may be of modern rather than replica manufacture

  • @davidthomas3165
    @davidthomas3165 Місяць тому

    I agree that music is extremely annoying I stop watching

  • @munkyjammin
    @munkyjammin Місяць тому

    We pick all the leaves from the nettle plant. Very lightly , barely cook them. Throw them in the end of the cooking process & the heat will wilt the prickly hairs. Great in omelettes, quiche, soups ,anything cooked with a some heat.

  • @zazovecchi
    @zazovecchi Місяць тому

    very nice

  • @SoldierDrew
    @SoldierDrew Місяць тому

    Grew up sleeping in wool blankets and I still prefer wool socks and wool blankets.

  • @addeenen7684
    @addeenen7684 Місяць тому

    I come from the South of the Netherlands and that also applies to almost all my ancestors. I hate woolen clothes. My mother knitted wool underwear, but it gave me a bad rash. Maybe that's why there are non-wool undergarments.

  • @sewdarn2770
    @sewdarn2770 Місяць тому

    Brilliant. Thanks for showing. How lovely.

  • @slsmith5267
    @slsmith5267 Місяць тому

    Interesting content but the music is annoying.

  • @madamemarmot
    @madamemarmot Місяць тому

    Just lovely.

  • @codename495
    @codename495 Місяць тому

    I really love the giant oval cloak. I would love something like it in a cozy type textile. Maybe with a really fun fastener.

  • @ajrwilde14
    @ajrwilde14 Місяць тому

    I'd give anything to go back to living in a close-knit tribe like this!

    • @roadwayrona
      @roadwayrona Місяць тому

      Are there not quite a few communes and communities around?

    • @ingerfalch-jacobsen1717
      @ingerfalch-jacobsen1717 Місяць тому

      Or tightly woven! I don't think knitting was invented yet.

    • @YamiKisara
      @YamiKisara Місяць тому

      Just get some friends or move to a community like that (small vilages), but be ready to give up things like Starbucks on every corner. Because you probably don't want to really go back to that time. Y'know, with like 2/3 or your kids dying (if not more), no modern surgery, the danger of famine year after year, and so on.

  • @julienielsen3746
    @julienielsen3746 Місяць тому

    So interesting.

  • @hanawana
    @hanawana Місяць тому

    9:28

  • @hanawana
    @hanawana Місяць тому

    CSM

  • @ravensthatflywiththenightm7319
    @ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 Місяць тому

    Just discovered your channel. I've always been curious about the Iron Age. Subscribed!

  • @moonflower5553
    @moonflower5553 Місяць тому

    as bad as it is for history and our understanding of the culture, props to that woman for being willing to wash clothing that had been in a bog for a thousand+ years lol

    • @ceciliajones7816
      @ceciliajones7816 Місяць тому

      No. She destroyed so much archeological evidence!

    • @madder6218
      @madder6218 Місяць тому

      Here here, Yes, the rest of the archaeological finds may have deteriorated because of her intervention. However, if she just stumbled upon an old fabric, I'd say it was already relatively exposed to the elements. I'd propose her saving it, loving it, appreciating it, trying to understand it, having respectful fun with it is opening doors to the understanding of the past + putting it to good use and potentially creating/evolving new practical ways to wear it and that's one better in my books, keeping the knowledge of the past alive in the flesh.

    • @ceciliajones7816
      @ceciliajones7816 Місяць тому

      @@madder6218 then you didn’t pay attention to the expert in the video

  • @NYCResident543
    @NYCResident543 Місяць тому

    Okay, just give me more tv like THIS. Thanks, Ladies!

  • @oldpossum57
    @oldpossum57 Місяць тому

    Fans of Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker might like to know that the experimental Neolithic farm at Buster was a great source for the farms in the novel.

  • @1midnightfish
    @1midnightfish Місяць тому

    Lovely video, thank you so much, I'm just sorry I came to it so late! I'll check out the channel. I really want to visit that place now

  • @tinuvianna
    @tinuvianna Місяць тому

    Are you dropping nettle into that pot in the beginning with your bare hands?!

  • @marcellacruser951
    @marcellacruser951 Місяць тому

    Any place there were oaks, there was acorn flour, acorn cakes and acorn porridge.

  • @Luc-uw8ur
    @Luc-uw8ur Місяць тому

    Please stop adding background music! It is so distracting….

    • @jadakowers590
      @jadakowers590 Місяць тому

      100% AGREE!

    • @loriar1027
      @loriar1027 Місяць тому

      😮 I didn’t even notice the music till I read your comment. How funny!

  • @marionthomas8089
    @marionthomas8089 Місяць тому

    Hi. Thanks for the video. How much salt do you add if you want to make it a salted butter.

  • @jeanninerossouw5921
    @jeanninerossouw5921 Місяць тому

    there are whole groups of people in Asia minor and Russia that still dress like this.

    • @KKIcons
      @KKIcons Місяць тому

      I could easily wear these to Orthodox church in the US. I have only attended parishes in the South and in TX, so I cannot speak for if that would go over well elsewhere.

  • @w.dossett3332
    @w.dossett3332 Місяць тому

    I love her enthusiasm......and her accent

    • @gordonprice695
      @gordonprice695 Місяць тому

      Was just trying to figure that out. I am thinking Brittany, but been in Britain for a long time. Would love to be able to ask her.

    • @GiGiGoesShopping
      @GiGiGoesShopping Місяць тому

      French non? She said she's French n'est-ce pas?

    • @gordonprice695
      @gordonprice695 Місяць тому

      @@GiGiGoesShopping Yes, but there isn't one single French accent. Parisians don't sound like Alsacians don't sound like Brettons.