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> Most of the articles and references I
have see have shown fairly small diameter wood being used for coaling.<
Surely this is a practical problem. Coaling a large trunk would take
forever, as would splitting it up before coaling it. In earlier times it
would make even more sense to use small wood. The labour needed to fell and
transport large timber would be unreasonable when small wood would do.
Coppicing is surely as old as chopping wood. Our forebears would surely
have noticed that they could come back in a few years and chop the same
tree. I think this could account for the re-use of Iron age sites, smelting
or domestic.
Peter
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