Auckland Castle’s Luck-Telling Dy and Other Bizarre Father

The use of a medieval toilet and a jet dye to predict future was some conclusions that could help in making a picture of everyday life in a medieval bishop palace.

Archaeologists at the Auckland Castle in County Durham’s bishop Auckland finally finally lowered their trowels, which ended the excavation of over seven years on the site.

A detailed analysis of conclusions, which may take up to two years, is currently running.

The final summer of the excavation ended with a huge medieval wall discovery, but other interesting objects – from worldly to magical – have also been found from 2018.

According to the archaeological curator John Castling of the Auckland Project, at least three medieval toilets have been found at least three years around the site.

He said, “An irony is that the toilets are now for our visitors.”

The latest was found in June 1.

The feature, known as a garderob, is next to the Great Hall, where the bishops and their guests used to feast.

It may be that it could not look especially hygiene today, but at that time it was a “very cleaner method”, because most people were in their homes, Sri Castling said.

“It is demonstrating the power and importance of the bishop and their homes.”

It is believed that the toilet was last used in the 13th century.

Described as one of the most “rare and unusual” conclusions on the site, a whale Balen was discovered between the 17th -century glass cuts.

Balen is found inside the mouth of some whale species and is used to help filter hunting instead of teeth.

If a whale is washed on a nearby edge, it was claimed by the bishop that as a token of their semi-region, but also as a resource, Mr. Castling said.

Balen was used in a similar manner as a modern day solid plastic and was placed in items such as corsets, painting brushes and gaunts.

“In the modern world we think of whale as a beautiful creature that is not a resource,” said Mr. Castling.

“But in the medieval period he was seen with a degree of reverence, but was also seen as a resource that could be used if it is washed on the edge.”

A jet dye was also found, but it was not used to play the game.

Instead, people in the medieval period believed that the item could help predict the future.

Shri Castilling said that Britain did not have many identical dice and most were found in religious places.

When rubbing, the jet sparks and closes static.

“When you first say to people, they had a dice that they used to try and understand the future, which seems completely foreigner to our modern rational world,” said Sri Castling.

“But it produces something that seems magical.”

Some items have traveled further on the site.

Archaeologists have found a 17th-century knife, it is believed to come from Amsterdam, as well as French Jeton, coin-type items used in calculations.

An amphora was also discovered in the last summer to originate from South-West Spain.