View source for Authenticity:Buckets & Barrels

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Buckets from our period may be either wider at the top, wider at the bottom or parallel sided. Hoops should ideally be made from wooden laths or withies but thin semi-circular or triangular section iron bar is allowable. Buckets handles may be of iron or made from an authentic cordage. <br>
RICH Viking or English characters may own a copper-alloy hooped or plated bucket. These buckets may have either iron or copper-alloy handles.

==Wooden hoops (Encouraged)==
Simple wooden buckets bound with wooden materials. Handles can be made of wood, rope or iron. Staves are made from oak, yew, ash or pine. Bindings of yew, ash, pine, hazel, willow, alder, fir and maple. Either as withies or laths. Base plates are constructed from planks doweled together.<br>
Some buckets were made from hollowed out logs. They have a separate base inserted into a notch. Usually bound in withies. Just like stave buckets, they have two extended handle-staves for attaching the handle to.
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Bucket - wooden bound.JPG|Wooden lathes
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==Thin iron hoops (Optional)==
An alternative to using wooden withies or laths to bind a bucket is to use thin iron hoops. These are usually semicircular in cross-section.
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Bucket - Iron bound - thin.JPG|Thin iron bands
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==Copper-alloy hoops (Optional/Allowable)==
Copper-alloy bound buckets are usually of Irish manufacture and a number of them have been found in Norway. Handles can be of either iron or copper-alloy. Instead of a handle some buckets have four iron carrying rings. Some of these buckets are reinforced with thin iron hoops between the brass hoops. <br>
These buckets are classed as ''Restricted'' and may only be used by ''RICH'' characters.
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==Wide Iron hoops (Unacceptable)==
No wooden buckets with visible wide iron hoops. Wide metal hoops can be made allowable by being hidden under wooden laths, withies or a copper-alloy strip. Using copper-alloy would restrict the bucket to RICH characters.
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Bucket Wooden -iron bands.JPG|Wide iron bands
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==Kit Guide==
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{{Kit Row|Stave construction            |All|E}}
{{Kit Row|hollowed log                  |All|E}}
{{Kit Row|Bound with natural materials  |All|E}}
{{Kit Row|Bound in thin iron hoops      |All|O}}
{{Kit Row|Bound in wide iron hoops      |All|U}}
{{Kit Row|Bound with Copper-alloy [RICH]|O-RICH|A-RICH|A-RICH|U|U|U}}
{{Kit Row|Handles of wood, rope or iron |All|E}}
{{Kit Row|4 rings instead of a handle   |O|A|A|U|U|U}}
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