Brick spit-supports – a little known part of kitchen furnaces
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Forum Urbes Medii Aevi |
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| Keywords | brick spit-supports-kitchen equipment-brick-Prague-Early Modern Age |
| Description | Spits and their parts belong to artifacts that were an integral part of many medieval kitchens. We know them from many archeological, iconographical and writtensources. They mainly comprise metal turnspits and various kinds of metal stands anddevices for turning the prepared food.To specific finds belong the brick spit-supports. They represent a special kind of building ceramics that is not very common. These supports were a fixed part of raised kitchen furnaces and served for holding a metal turnspit above the fire. To characteristic features of these artifacts belong holes or troughs for placing of individual turnspit sand often rich stamped and engraved decoration.The paper is going to present a collection of these artifacts, which were foundduring a rescue archeological research in the locality Palác Národní in the New Town of Prague. During this research, several of these artifacts were found in the area of the original civic parcels. Older known finds from the Czech region have been mostly incorrectly interpreted, unlike the finds in Poland and Western Europe. |