Medieveal ships cooking grill and hearth -where can I find drawings showing what kind of heaths and grills were used?

[bear]

Hello Fellow builders

 

I am Building Pavel Nikitns Nef of Winchealsea and what to add a hearth for the cooking used on the deck to add to the ships details. Looking for info on what was used on ships from the 11 centruy to 13th . 

Thanks

[Ferrus Manus]

Hello Bear, 

You should check out Steven @Louie da fly's build of the Winchelsea Nef. It has lots of information you could need for your build. 

With that said, I find it highly likely that a simple clay oven or perhaps a brick oven like the one found on the Mary Rose would have been used to feed the crew. For the thirteenth century, I would say the former would be more likely. I hope this answers your question. 

[wefalck]

The question would be, whether they really went to the trouble of cooking on relatively short passages in the North Sea or around the Bay of Biscay etc. Given the rough seas that pervail usually in these areas, this would be a considerable fire risk. 

 

I am not an expert on this, but the archaeological evidence I seem to have seen points at clay or bronze pots with three little feet protruding from the bottom, that were set into(!) the fire/glowing embers in a hearth. There is archaeological evidence for brick hearths being used on slightly later cogs.

 

This kind of arrangement is still in use in other areas around the world, for instance on dhows of the Indian Ocean.