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Viking Dublin wooden churn dash

A wooden dasher found in Viking-period Dublin is direct evidence of butter-making in the town. The published evidence names a churn dash but does not give this particular object's dimensions or a full churn reconstruction.

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Churns, agitators and drums
Dublin
Watercolor illustration of the open wooden vessel associated with the Rosberry bog-butter find, with paired rim projections.
Equipment

Wooden bog-butter container

Irish bog-butter finds include wooden containers in several forms, from kegs and tubs to bowls and a mether. The Rosberry museum example is a carved open vessel; no single design or reason for depositing butter in bogs is established.

Wooden food-storage vessels
Ireland
Interpretive watercolor-and-ink illustration of a traditional Irish bastible: an empty cast-iron pot with a separate shallow lid carrying turf embers. The form is source-informed, not an identified historical artefact.
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Bastible

A portable cast-iron Irish hearth pot that became a small oven when embers were placed on its lid, baking bread, meat and poultry.

Covered pot ovens
Ireland