
The lights look like instruments of torture. There was a scatter of these above the eating benches in the kitchen chamber of Beynac Castle.
They could be lowered on ropes to be recharged with oil - probably tallow - or other burnable items like oily rags.
There were a great number of other things hanging from the ceiling: buckets, iron pots and grappling hooks - which may have had bacon hanging from them, getting smokier and smokier.
They could be lowered on ropes to be recharged with oil - probably tallow - or other burnable items like oily rags.
There were a great number of other things hanging from the ceiling: buckets, iron pots and grappling hooks - which may have had bacon hanging from them, getting smokier and smokier.