| Based on those found aboard the Mary Rose - I eat from one every day! |
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| beech plates: 9½" £25 :: 10" £29 :: 10½" £33 |
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side plates 8½" £21 :: set of 4 £79
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| Smaller plates made from sycamore, replicas of one found at St Mary's Spital, London dated 1496. |
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| Wooden dishes and plates came into widespread use from the 13th century onwards, before this most people ate from bowls. The best archaeological collection of wooden plates and dishes are from the wreck of Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. You can download a copy of my "History of the plate" as a 150kb PDF <here>. |
