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I don't know if this will help. The attached photos are of a baking/bread
oven in use in Tobago. I can't say how English or African in might be.
This one, with its shed is all that old but is "traditional" as described by
the family that maintains and uses it.
<<Image2.jpg>> <<Image3.jpg>> <<Image4.jpg>>
Thomas Hales Eubanks, Ph.D., RPA
State Archaeologist
Division of Archaeology
1051 N. 3rd St.
P. O. Box 44247
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
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From: Mary Beaudry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:42 PM
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Subject: Query re outdoor bread ovens
Perhaps a thread on this topic happened when I had my account set to
nomail in earlier summers when I was actually in the field, but I'll
ask anyway.
Has anyone found remains of outdoor bread ovens at Anglo sites of
the
colonial period? I have a query from an architectural historian who
has uncovered textual references to construction of ovens and an
"oven sheed" but all the excavated examples we know of come from
sites occupied by French, Italian, or German colonists. I figure in
New England we seldom have enough of the site left in urban areas to
really find everything that was in the original homelot, but perhaps
someone has come up with evidence we can muster to clarify the
documents and satisfy curiousity?
Best,
Mary B.
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Mary C Beaudry
Associate Professor
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 USA
tel. 617-358-1650
fax 617-353-6800
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