M0nica
mae13
Fresh rushes, renewed twice a year as in medieval times. Very economical. The big disadvantage, though, is that the bugs and fleas they attract very likely facilitated The Black Death of 1347/8 and also it's return in 1379, but everything has a downside.......
Fresh rushes require a beaten earth floor. I think that today that contravenes Building regulations.
I remember my mother telling me she had rented rooms in a house in Portsmouth for a short while many years ago when my father was stationed there in the late 1930s.
She was horrified to find that the shared kitchen floor was beaten earth. Even though she'd been brought up in country cottages she'd never seen anything like it.
