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It is useful to examine the quality of masonry and relate it to area , period and type of stone . It can vary from the evidence of a hasty and unskilled rush job to consummate skill with the finest of material .
It is useful to examine the quality of masonry and relate it to area , period and type of stone . It can vary from the evidence of a hasty and unskilled rush job to consummate skill with the finest of material .
Page 114
Materials and Saxon buildings and a number of Northern castles incorporate stone from Roman camps or the Wall . Normans brought stone from Caen ( used e.g. at Arundel , Orford , Portchester ) but English stone was increasingly used ...
Materials and Saxon buildings and a number of Northern castles incorporate stone from Roman camps or the Wall . Normans brought stone from Caen ( used e.g. at Arundel , Orford , Portchester ) but English stone was increasingly used ...
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PETRARIA A general name for the great stone - throwing engines against whose battering the prodigious thickness of curtains and the deflective spur were developed . Ideally , the stone projectiles were cut to a weight and shape related ...
PETRARIA A general name for the great stone - throwing engines against whose battering the prodigious thickness of curtains and the deflective spur were developed . Ideally , the stone projectiles were cut to a weight and shape related ...
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