RICH Viking or English characters may own a copper-alloy hooped or plated bucket. These buckets may have either iron or copper-alloy handles.
===Wooden hoops (Encouraged (All Periods)===Simple wooden buckets bound with natural wooden materials or thin iron hoops. Handles can be made of wood, rope or iron. Staves are made from oak, yew, ash or pine. Bindings of yew, ash, pine, hazel, willow, alder, fir and maple. Either as withies or laths. Base plates are constructed from planks doweled together.<br>
Some buckets were made from hollowed out logs. They have a separate base inserted into a notch. Usually bound in withies. Just like stave buckets, they have two extended handle-staves for attaching the handle to.
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===Optional Copper-alloy hoops (All PeriodsOptional/Allowable)===
Copper-alloy bound buckets are usually of Irish manufacture and a number of them have been found in Norway. Handles can be of either iron or copper-alloy. Instead of a handle some buckets have four iron carrying rings. Some of these buckets are reinforced with thin iron hoops between the brass hoops. <br>
These buckets are classed as ''Restricted'' and may only be used by ''RICH'' characters.
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===Allowable Wide Iron hoops (All Periods)===<gallery></gallery> ===Unacceptable (All Periods)===
No wooden buckets with visible wide iron hoops. Wide metal hoops can be made allowable by being hidden under wooden laths, withies or a copper-alloy strip. Using copper-alloy would restrict the bucket to RICH characters.
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==Kit Guide==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Period !! Encouraged !! Optional !! Allowable !! Unacceptable
|-
| style="width: 20%;"|'''Very Early<br>(793-899)'''
| style="width: 20%;"|<!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| style="width: 20%;"|<!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>Bound with Copper-alloy [RICH]<br>4 Rings instead of handle
| style="width: 20%;"|<!--All-->
| style="width: 20%;"|<!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|-
| '''Early<br>(900-979)'''
| <!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| <!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>
| <!--All-->Bound with Copper-alloy [RICH]<br>4 Rings instead of handle
| <!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|-
| '''Mid<br>(980-1041)'''
| <!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| <!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>
| <!--All-->Bound with Copper-alloy [RICH]<br>4 Rings instead of handle
| <!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|-
| '''Late<br>(1042-1079)'''
| <!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| <!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>
| <!--All-->
| <!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|-
| '''Very Late<br>(1080-1179)'''
| <!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| <!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>
| <!--All-->
| <!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|-
| '''Angevin<br>(1180-1215)'''
| <!--Enc-->Stave or hollowed log<br>Bound with natural materials<br>Handles of wood, rope or iron.
| <!--Opt-->Bound in thin iron hoops<br>
| <!--All-->
| <!--Una-->Bound with wide iron hoops
|}