Greetings
Yet Cornwall, which had a similar lack of trees, did not, as far a I am
aware, use stone headframes. Maybe the granite was too heavy. For
structural purposes timber was imported from Norway, I believe. Hence
the Norway Inn at (?)Perranarworthal.
Is it that we need to look both from an absence of a source of timber
and easily worked stone for the masonry headframe type?
John
In message <199905201447.PAA16896@hermes>, Peter Claughton
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>>I have been following the masonry headframe thread with casual interest
>until it finally dawned on me: "Why did they build masonry headframes?".
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>The principal reason would probably be the availability of materials. Two
>of the locations cited - Mexico and Andalusia, in Spain - have a distinct
>lack of timber resources.
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>Peter
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