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Medieval roofs in Sweden #23727 06/06/10 01:54 AM
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Here is a link to an interesting paper on surviving medieval roofs in Sweden, of which they may have over 200 surviving examples.

http://www.conservation.gu.se/digitalAss..._structures.pdf

Jim


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Re: Medieval roofs in Sweden [Re: Housewright] #23730 06/06/10 05:32 AM
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Hi Jim,

Good paper !

I wish that more of these types of reference materials were available on line. I have the referenced papers by Currie and some of Fletcher's works as well, both of whom were working in Oxfordshire and Old Berkshire.

There appears to be quite a difference between early Scandinavian and western European work.

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Ken Hume


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