Without a doubt a camp oven is the quintessential piece of bush cooking equipment.
Cathy Savage, Australian Bush Cooking.
The first reference to a camp oven I came across was as one of the items imported by Macqueen, Atkinson, and Pritchett in 1823.[7] There was no description of it.
In 1896 Cheap Oven For The Bush was published describing making a camp oven out of tin.
