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An amazing 17th to 18th century house in the Gwydir forest Conwy, with a large possible community oven in a side building
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Join Magnificent Meadows Wales team for a free webinar to find out more about the colourfully intriguing fungi found in our grasslands. Our speakers will talk waxcaps, fungi conservation and our new app WaxcApp. Register here: bit.ly/3nP2qSr. See you on Friday!
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The font at Bridekirk, Cumbria with its Anglo/Norse runes read something like "Rikarth he made me and brought me to this splendour". So not only do we know the name of the mason/carver but also what he looked like from his 'selfie' where he is busy with mallet & (huge) chisel.
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Functional cherry cocking; hairy mortar. Left bits of tile, stone and where the joint gets narrow, jamming in slate. Hairy mortar folds around the cherry. Top right; jamming cracks. Btm right; ruled flush finish. Still damp. Needs redder sand. Get the idea?
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The 15C detached chapel at Bury Barton (perhaps the best collection of historic and vernacular buildings in Devon, dating from early 14C to late 19C). Original wagon roof. Fine quality medieval rubblestone masonry, oak-framed doorway. #VirtualVernacular
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A pre-historic mattock or #Thames pick I found on last night's v low tide on the banks of the river. Either Mesolithic, Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Made from deer antler, the handle was bound via the hole creating a pick-like tool. Recording #mudlarking #mudlark #archeology
ALT Pre-historic mattock made from deer antler insitu. Could be 4 to 10,000 years old
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Left, lime bollocks, right flush finished and ruled. Ffs it’s even got the freaking lime inclusions you get so worked up about. And the new works grant aided
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Some nice carpentry work feathering in replacement sections on the gatehouse door of the Cathedral #Canterbury #Kent
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Nicholas Evans 1907-2004 b. Aberdare, Wales, self taught artist, a miner at 13, he left the pits after his father’s death in a mining accident, a tragedy which alongside a subsequent spiritual conversion shaped a prodigious & remarkable artistic output following his retirement.
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Remnant of a former cruck-framed house with 2 extant bays built in 1501/3. Ceiling inserted into hall in 1614. Plank and muntin screen at high end of hall. One truss decorated with cusping at apex. More info at discoveringoldwelshhouses.co…. Llandrillo, Denbighshire. #VirtualVernacular
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Friday evening, on a very quiet, dark and sultry foreshore, the river finally gave me what I've been waiting 15 years for... a medieval pewter pilgrim badge. Thomas a Becket, c.14th century and the only hand that's touched it in almost 700 years is mine
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These slate slab fences or crawiau, as I learned yesterday, are thought to be unique to this area. I saw lots on yesterday’s walk up to Cwmorthin Quarry and I love them #WallsOnMyWalks #Snowdonia
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Doom, c.1200, at Chaldon, Surrey.
Spot the bridge of spikes and the dishonest tradespeople crossing it, including a blacksmith, mason, spinners and potter.
Below, a usurer sits in flames. Coins pour from his mouth, he has to keep counting... if he stops devils will jab him.
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#skillz🙌 indeed. #craftskills is what I’m saying. Keep #craftskills alive on Twitter. @FlintBrick @MorleyRA @king_montezuma @34every1 @cahil91 @copseworker @SPAB1877 @HistoricEngland @hotmixedmortars we all have a part to play if we want traditional #craftskills in the future
