29th April 2010, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 29th April 2010, 10:43 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
...and of course there are plenty of (ethnographic) non-kippering examples dating from more recent times in the north and west of Scandinavia where meat and fish are/were hung to wind dry. As always give me a minute of two and I will find some photographs.....This is a cod drying rack from R?st in Norway. Can also be used for drying nets, not sure I have ever heard of duck drying. This is a small example there are much much bigger (I mean tens of metres long!!) ....GK is right regarding the 'footprint' that such structures might leave in the archaeological record. I have seen arrangements of postholes found on stone age sites which might derive from drying or smoking racks described as 'tents' as 'long houses' as 'animal enclosures' etc etc....
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