Wood Wood
Wooden artifacts are rare, due to the fact that they rot away rapidly under most conditions.These artifacts are all from the excavations near Glastonbury, and are drawings made by artists working in the field of archaeology.
| Spokes for a Chariot or a Cart Wheel. Turned on a pole lathe, and the tenon cut with a saw and a chisel. |  |
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| Mallet. Wooden hammer for knocking joints together, or hammering chisels. The wooden head does not cause any damage to the woodwork. |  |
| Handle for a hand saw. The blade fits into the slot at the right hand end. The hand saw looks like a modern pruning saw, and cuts on the pull ! |  |
| This is a spoon turned on a pole-lathe to get the basic shape. One side is then cut away and hollowed out to create the bowl of the spoon. |  |
| A cross section and outer face of a lathe turned tub. Note the patterned ridging on the outside. |  |
| Hand carved platter or trencher. Probably used as a meat plate or food server. |  |
| A section of a stave built tub with feet. The piece shown has an extension below the base slot which acts as a foot. The wooden pegs ensured that the sections stay butted up to one another, and the whole thing was probably held under pressure by shrunk iron bands. |  |
Wheel Hub.This shows how the Spokes (above) fit into the Hub (right). The Hub is turned from one piece of wood, with the mortice holes chiseled out to fit the spokes. The fellow is attached around the outside of the spokes, and the whole wheel is held under compression with a heat-shrunk iron tyre.