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Description: | Today the hall is tiled with Victorian quarry tiles. Excavations at Gainsborough did not produce any evidence of what the floor originally consisted of. Some halls, Barley Hall in York for example, were covered with beautiful medieval tiles. The most likely surface in the hall would have been rammed earth, with a covering of dried ox blood to make it hard. This would then have been covered with rushes mixed with herbs to keep the rushes sweet smelling. Thomas Tusser's 1557 'Points of Good Husbandry' gives us twenty-one herbs suitable for strewing including basil, camomile, cowslips and rosemary. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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