Cordon’s Inside Pots?......From ‘Wild Justice’…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:53 on 24 February 2025
Cordon’s Inside Pots?....
An interesting Ness of Brodgar related item by Jan Blatchford….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/internal-cordon/
Once again, I’d like to be able to talk with someone who could explain The Ness of Brodgar…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/12/01/someone-who-could-explain-the-ness-of-brodgar/
Failing that, I asked my go-to man for matters pottanical, Andrew Appleby, aka ‘The Harray Potter’ ….
https://www.orkney.com/news/fursbreck-pottery
…and he replied….
“I think that the Bain Marie idea is sensible. I also saw this decoration on a sherd, and wondered about a jelly mould?
I thought of the Bain Marie in respect of interior base decoration on a wide pot from Scatness Iron Age Broch. I experimented with the heavily soapstone grogged pottery from there.
One base had finger compressed dents in it. I remade this pot. A winkle shell in each dent, with another pot on top of them allowed the oxygen bubbles to escape without making the interior pot jiggle about, causing unwanted wear and damage. I actually made hoof glue in the interior pot, just to see if it worked. The hoof melted and I had very sticky stuff indeed.
These particular pots are usually associated with a workshop/armoury. What you need in an armoury is hot, liquid, hoof glue for sticking the spear shafts into the ferrule of the spear.
Time doesn’t change things. Yes, you can have one Neolithic pot inside another to create a Bain Marie. A flat stone, too, could have been placed atop the grooves or cordons, allowing a large hunk of meat to be simmered without sticking to the base or the stone wobbling.
There was a huge pot base from The Ness with the remains of a cow’s head, which had been boiled for a long time. I do not know if there was a stone, or even a piece of wood under it. The bone mass had been boiled so much that no bone remained, just the teeth in their correct dental positions.
I preserved ox tails in jelly and fat using clay from Skaill Bay to make the pot. I simply simmered them in the pot until completely set and tender. I removed the bones when cool and allowed the mass of meat to go stone cold. The residual fat rose to the surface and set hard, forming an airtight seal. I removed the crust of fat three months or so later and ate the oxtail cold in its jelly. A wonderful several servings of potted meat!
Hugely thick pots will continue to cook the contents after the fire has died, such is their heat retention qualities.
Bonne repast”
The Ness just keeps on giving - including food for thought!
Preparing an Unstan bowl to cook lobsters. Thanks to Andrew for the pic.
PS
From the Ness of Brodgar blog....
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/stone-discs/
Maybe the circular ones were used as a divider in a Bain Marie? Maybe?
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From ‘Wild Justice’…..
“Today’s newsletter brings you the next three of a series of a dozen blogs about raptor persecution in relation to the driven grouse shooting industry.
Our petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting has now reached 64,000 signatures. We’re almost two-thirds of the way to 100,00 people calling for a ban – the number we need to trigger a government debate on the issue.
We’ve got this far together, with the efforts of you and organisations in the sector - like the RSPB, Rewilding Britain and Peta - helping the petition surge towards 100k. We need another c36k signatures (35,470 at the time of writing this!) before May 22nd this year in order to reach our target. We’re feeling positive about the outcome but it’s by no means ‘in the bag’, so please continue to help by spreading the word.
How low will they go?
Today we bring you the next three out of a dozen blogs documenting examples of the persecution of raptors. This series demonstrates the depths criminals associated with driven grouse shooting will go to in order to illegally kill birds of prey.
These are all cases that would’ve gone undetected, if it wasn’t for investigators, field workers, police and members of the public. Think about how many other horrific crimes must remain unseen, being committed secretly and under the radar.
- NEW: A barbaric crime – click here.
- NEW: Under the boot – click here.
- NEW: A toxic environment – click here.
- Nowhere is safe (Golden Eagle and White-tailed Eagle) - click here.
- An ambush (Hen Harrier) - click here.
- A double whammy (Red Kite) - click here.
- Shooting a sleeping beauty (Golden Eagle) - click here.
- The indiscriminate persecutors (Merlin) - click here.
- Faking it: death by decoy (Hen Harrier) - click here.
We'll be adding to this list over the next couple of weeks.
Other blogs:
For a simple introduction to the issue, read What driven grouse shooting is - and why we want it banned: - click here.
For information on how incidents like those detailed above impact the population dynamics of birds of prey, click here for Golden Eagles, here for Peregrine Falcons and here for Hen Harriers.
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Every signature added to our petition nudges us a little closer to our target. Can you please keep the nudging going?
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We’ve made great progress but we can’t stop now!
Thank you.
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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