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[History Detective]

Hi there and welcome to the forum I hope you enjoy your stay here and find our forum really useful and helpful This is the right place to come when looking for gardening help and inspiration

Hi, Trellum--and thank you so much for the warm welcome!

 

[History Detective]

Hello and welcome!

Thank you, Becky! I'm pleased to meet you!

 

[zigs]

History is fascinating, isn't it? I take an interest in all time periods, but there's a special place in my heart for the 18th Century.

It is. Saw this this morning and thought i'd get a pic for you

 

[History Detective]

Wow, zigs! That is lovely! Do you happen to know any of the story behind it?

 

[zigs]

No, just a cistern in the garden at Barrington Court. Wouldn't like to eat any veg watered from it

Mad enough without lead added to me system

 

[History Detective]

Yikes! I wondered what it might be made of... Lead is frightening, indeed. Still, that is a lovely piece of art! Thank you so much for sharing it!

 

[zigs]

No probs, repaired a 16th century window recently

 

[History Detective]

Awesome, zigs! What a fantastic experience it must be to get to work with these beautiful things from history!

 

[zigs]

It is nice

Spotted a Roman brick, re used in a church wall a few weeks back

 

[History Detective]

Is it the red one in the center of the picture, zigs? Thank you so much for posting these lovely pictures! I checked the website that is linked at the bottom of your posts, and I am amazed at the photos of the work samples. There was even one that made me laugh--the dog that ate the earplugs!

 

[zigs]

That's the one, if we could see the rest of it, it would probably have a swirl of finger marks on the top, when they made them they did that as a key for the lime mortar.

The brick to the right is a Tudor one, lots of those in the church, robbed from buildings that had fallen into disrepair.

Glad you like my site, it's not brilliant as I made it myself and i'm not a web designer.

The dog looked like butter wouldn't melt in its mouth, but ear plugs did

 

[History Detective]

That's hilarious! Dogs are such adorable menaces!

 

[zigs]

Few pics that I don't think are on my website...

Taking the roof off Dunster Castle.









Lovely view from the top, the flat fields were sea when the castle was built, but we're still rising after the weight of the ice from the ice age went.



Did 3 weeks tuition in Aphrodisias, a Roman City in Turkey.



The city had been buried by later development, you can see the layers of history after it was party excavated, one of the later drainage trenches had been backfilled with tesserae from a mosaic.



Woke up here one morning



Me and my crew

 

[History Detective]

What a wonderful adventure your work must be, zigs! Looks like you have a great crew, too. The person standing to your left reminds me very much of my grandfather. Is it a little scary, though, working with the historic sites? I think I'd be petrified that I would break something very, very old and very, very precious.

 

[zigs]

Has it's mundane side too, like any job I suppose, but you do get to see some interesting things



This is a Cressett stone, it would have been kept in the church with tallow candles burning in it. It acted as a pilot light for the village, folk who needed a light would have come and got one from it. Saved them the time of making fire each day.