This long stem candle holder is a convenient way to light up a space in the dark, crafted in cast iron with decorative detailing along the stem.
It stands on a tri-legged base for genuine stability. This version offers a further alternative build within our long stem candle holder range.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical candle holder, part of our historical camp range.
This long stem candle holder is a convenient way to light up a space in the dark, crafted in cast iron with decorative detailing along the stem.
It stands on a tri-legged base for genuine stability. This version offers a further alternative build within our long stem candle holder range.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical candle holder, part of our historical camp range.
The medieval kettle comes in different sizes and shapes, appropriate for open-flame cooking or boiling water.
Cast iron kettles were durable, practical vessels for boiling water and general cooking over an open flame, valued for their ability to withstand direct fire exposure repeatedly without damage. This smaller version suits a compact camp party.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical kettle, part of our historical camp range.
A dedicated camp cutlery set gives a re-enactor practical, period-styled tools for eating at camp, holding a knife, fork and spoon together in one leather case. Knives remained the dominant eating utensil through much of the medieval period, since the fork was still a rare and even mildly scandalous import from Byzantium and Italy that took centuries to gain wider acceptance. This set is crafted with genuine attention to practical use, suited to regular handling at re-enactment camps and events.
A fire striker, or fire steel, is a piece of high-carbon steel struck against flint or similar hard stone to shave off tiny particles of metal that ignite as sparks, hot enough to catch tinder such as char cloth. This version follows a hook-shaped profile, a form commonly associated with English and later American tinderboxes, designed to hang over the fingers for easy use. Household strikers kept near a fireplace tended toward this plain, practical form rather than the more decorative shapes worn or displayed by their owners.
This working replica recreates the traditional hard stone quern, its upper and lower wheels turned against each other by a wooden pin, with grain poured into the centre to be ground between them.
Neolithic and Upper Palaeolithic peoples used millstones of this kind to grind grains, nuts, rhizomes and other plant foods for consumption, relying on saddlestones or rotary querns turned by hand well before mechanised milling existed. The same basic devices were also used to grind pigments and metal ores prior to smelting, making the quern one of the most versatile and enduring tools in early human technology.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is inspired by quern stones held in the Whithorn Museum, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, part of our historical camp range.
