Beacon Villages
Under Cosdon Beacon Dartmoor Devon UK
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Wednesday 22nd December 2004 Investigation into the origins of the Church House roof continue. A visit was made to get a photographic record for further study. One aspect was the carpenter's marks found on some timbers which might indicate alignment for the original placement or for re-build after taking down or moving. |
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Other areas of interest were the badly fitting timbers with obviously roughly inserted wooden pegs. There are also a couple of very eroded timbers. Why? Fire, rot, wear??? Finally I had to clamber to the partition gap and shoot blindly into the enclosed roof space to make a record of the area undisturbed for maybe hundreds of years. |
Wednesday 15th December 2004 The previous week, I popped along to the field where the new wheat for the roof thatch had been sown. This new sowing was necessary as the straw from last year's threshing had proved not to be suitable due to the prevailing weather conditions. Only sown a couple of weeks earlier, the wheat was already appearing above the soil. It is probably quite tall by now! |
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