The ash chest is finished.

The ash chest is finished and here's some photos of the last stages of its construction.

The bottom boards are fitted.

The long boards are fixed with draw-bored dry pegs.

Another long board is fitted...

...and one on the other side

The top long board on the back of the chest has been left longer than the others to allow the formation of the hinge pegs

With all the boards fixed it's time to make the lid...

...starting with the two lid sides which are fitted onto the hinge pegs.

The middle board is through tenoned along its whole width

The other two boards are fitted into a groove in the lid's side boards as well as having part of their width as a through tenon.

The lid sides are shaped for decoration and to allow pegs to be fitted from above, fixing all the tenons in place.

Finally all the pegs are trimmed flush, I carved my name and date inside the lid...

...and the outside was finished with a couple of coats of beeswax polish. 

Thanks to Peter Follansbee for posting the video of the Hungarian woodworker making a riven chest which enabled me to make this one.  Also to Tamas Gyenes in Hungary who I think sent the video to Peter originally and who has been kind enough to answer a few of my emailed questions concerning details of construction.