On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:17:49 GMT, Rick Cook
wrote:

Do a google search of "medieval chests", or "viking woodworking" You'll
get a lot of good ideas on arks and similar chests.

There are almost no web resources on ark chests, and many are wildly
inaccurate. Most of them are from SCA people who think that screwed
plywood around a beer cooler is "period".

There are some useful sites around on Norse work, but that's a whole
different period.

A few pictures from one of the few useful sites:
http://www.early-oak.fsnet.co.uk/littleark1.htm

This site also says there's an ark in Abergavenny museum - there
isn't, it's a flat-topped clamp-front coffer. Couple of bible boxes
and an armada chest too. Worth seeing, but it's not an ark.

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Smert' spamionam