Het karndeksel van de Bullepolder, terpbewoners karnden melk op kleine schaal

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The churn lid from the Bullepolder (Friesland, the Netherlands): Terp dwellers churned milk on a small scale. 

In 2001, the company Archaeological Research & Consultancy carried out an archaeological excavation in the Bullepolder, near Leeuwarden. A wooden churn lid was found in the fill of a well from the 1st century AD. Old excavations in the north of the Netherlands have yielded five ceramic churn lids and five wooden churn lids, but they all have only a general assigned date. This makes the find of Bullepolder the oldest known wooden churn lid in the Netherlands. The lid, now broken, is made of a heavy block of oak with a central aperture. The top is concave and the bottom is convex. The convex bottom shows wear marks near the outer edge of the lid caused by the lid rattling on the rim of the churn. The churn lid from the Bullepolder shows similarities with the churns and churn lids of the poor day labourers from the beginning of the previous century.