Fragment of a cocklestove tile.Credit: W.Bis
Posted on 09/13/2022 9:48:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Beautiful Renaissance cocklestove tiles with the quality and style matching those from the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków have been discovered during research in the ruins of the stronghold in Żelechów (Masovian Voivodeship)...
During this season, they focused on exploring the remains of the 16th-century court and the earlier, late medieval buildings located in the same place. The structures were part of a wooden castle...
...excavations made it possible to determine that the wooden building used in the 16th century was destroyed by fire. The archaeologists unearthed burnt beams and layers of burnt clay, which could have covered the walls and floor of the structure.
However, the most spectacular find - according to the researchers - turned out to be the remains of a cocklestove, which probably heated the representative room of the court...
Several hundred fragments of tiles have survived. They were mostly covered with colourful enamel: green, yellow, white and blue. According to the researchers, they probably ornamented a single cocklestove, the clay base of which has also survived.
So far, the researchers are unable to say where they originated from.
However, the researchers say stoves covered with similar tiles decorated the Renaissance interiors of the Wawel Royal Castle. Some of them, especially decorative tops or tiles with rosette motifs, are almost identical stylistically to those at Wawel.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceinpoland.pap.pl ...
Fragment of a cocklestove tile.Credit: W.Bis
Some people certainly did something in a very productive way.
Those are neat stoves.
LOL!
This made me wonder about the expression ‘Warming the cockles of one’s heart’; but apparently it’s not the same ‘cockle’ (?)
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cockle
Good question... alive alive oh...
Lovely!
My grand daughters have been singing the ballad of Molly Malone this year after learning at school…. Parochial TK.
Pleasant surprise for many older friends and family.
Alive, alive-o!
“And there’s nothing like hot cockles.” Woody Allen, in Love and Death, I believe.
I think the two are related.
HEH-HEH-HEH...You said "cocklestove "!......
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