Root Veg Serf. Shadow Minister for Root Crop & Gin Production

@rootvegserf.bsky.social

Loyal serf of & Catchfart to the Bretwalda of #Wülferhampton. Grower & retailer of the best-ish root vegetables in Mercia. Owner of Þe Newe Crawlinge Bastarde. BUY GRANNY R'S TURNIP GIN (57 varieties)

Clearly NOT for sharing. 4 pints of mead (with a Turnip Gin chaser) is nothing. Also handy as a water bucket to try and extinguish the flames.

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy #InternationalBeerDay! Here’s a 2,000-year-old whopper of a tankard from Iron Age Britain, designed to hold 4 pints! 🍺 🍺 🍺 🍺 Probably passed around for communal drinking! Cheers! 🍻 Oak staves sheathed in bronze. From the River Thames at Kew. London Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a large Late Iron Age cylindrical bronze tankard displayed on a pale grey museum plinth at the Museum of London Wall (this museum is now closed for relocation). The vessel is constructed of oak wood staves encased in beaten bronze sheet. It has a rolled rim, three horizontal bronze plates and a cast bronze loop handle soldered to the middle plate - shown on left in my photo. Dark, fragmentary, weathered wooden staves can just be seen inside the top of the bronze tankard plates. Dated c. 100 BC - 50 AD.

Measurements of outer bronze casing:

Height 15.2 cm
Base diameter 18.3 cm
Rim diameter 17.6 cm
Width (including handle): 19.6 cm

The tankard would have held just over two litres (four pints).

It was probably used at large ceremonial feasts for the communal drinking of beer or imported wine. Drinking was an important part of feasts and ceremonies. Vessels such as tankards were often placed in rivers or graves after being used. This one was found in the River Thames at Kew. It is part of the Layton Collection on long-term loan to the Museum of London

Errrrr,r this is the same bloke and company that right now are building two new nuclear power stations, one about five years away the other fifteen years away (Hinkley and Sizewell C). Has he just admitted Britain does not need these?