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Manor Kitchen: chain detail
 
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Hanging Chain

This image shows in detail the kind of chain that was used to suspend food above ground for storage, or to suspend cooking pots or cauldrons over a fire.

See the excavated example of chain upon which this reconstruction was based, or return to kitchen to see it in context, suspending the carcass of a pig. 		 
PREHISTORIC BURIALROMAN PERIOD FARMANGLO-SAXON ROYAL PALACEMEDIEVAL VILLAGEMEDIEVAL CASTLEPOST-MEDIEVAL LEAD WORKINGTWENTIETH CENTURY COAL MINE