You are welcome, DBailly.

Ken, The fact that buildings have not been "protected" until fairly recently is what makes the number of ancient survivals awsome.The US is way behind Europe in our understandng and protection of buildings.

Thanks for the brief history of building conservation. A very active TFG member is employed as an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute, a perfect match. If the US military could put the cost of one cruse missile into the project we could do a "smash up" job with paid travel and everything and have something that lasts for 500 years (with maintenance)!

Speaking of crucks, I came across this site linking a 100+ page report just on cruck buildings!

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/042/042tl001.pdf


Enjoy;
Jim

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