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Image Credit: RhiannonPosted by Rhiannon 30th July 2010ce Edited 31st July 2010ce |
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| Great pic Rhiannon. I must admit I had to click on it because it looks like a pair of rusty sparkplugs in thumbnail size. |
Posted by thesweetcheat13th August 2010ce |
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Ha they do rather, very good. I was quite thrilled to see them you know. When I was on an outdoors course recently, birch was The Tree to look for when starting your fire. You break off all the tiny snappy twiglets and put a bunch of them over your burning tinder, and all the resin makes them burn like mad. The label in the museum suggested these were firelighters and maybe, but you'd have to stick them in the embers maybe, you couldn't have let the fire go out and use one of these because it's not like you could have stuck your cigarette lighter under them, you'd only have the tiniest spark off a bit of flint and some pyrites or something (hence the fluffily prepared mushroom). Experimental archaeology that's the way forward eh. |
Posted by Rhiannon 14th August 2010ce |
| Perhaps the similarity to a "spark" plug is more pertinent than I intended (sorry). Don't go getting any firelighting ideas back in the library though will you? I've read "In The Name Of The Rose"... |
Posted by thesweetcheat 14th August 2010ce |
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