Title : Cooperage
Barrel's staves The inhabitants of Colletière practised cooperage to make barrels but also tuns and buckets probably used in kitchens and in the tawing activity.

That is how 40 objects forming assembled containers have been found (small staves, bottoms and a fragment of an assembling ring).

The perfectly drawn staves (juxtaposed wooden strips that form the surface of a bucket or of a barrel) and the bevel-edged rims of the oak bottoms leave no doubt about the way these utensils were made.

Staves' assembling system  to make a bucket

Farmer-knights return