And you're squandering all that stone on pavers! ;-)
I assume you're still looking at that ninth picture, of the living quarters. As I said, stone furniture! But that's all they had. There were virtually no trees on Orkney, so no wood. All they had was stone, clay, stone, bone, hides, stone and stone. Oh, and midden. "Compost" was mixed with clay, and packed between the walls.
What amazes me over there are all the drystone walls. They're everywhere. It seems that with hundreds, or even thousands of years of collective practice they'd get really good at it. So with those skills, what do you have to add to the stone walls to get walls good enough for a house?
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Date: 2014-05-10 05:10 am (UTC)From:I assume you're still looking at that ninth picture, of the living quarters. As I said, stone furniture! But that's all they had. There were virtually no trees on Orkney, so no wood. All they had was stone, clay, stone, bone, hides, stone and stone. Oh, and midden. "Compost" was mixed with clay, and packed between the walls.
What amazes me over there are all the drystone walls. They're everywhere. It seems that with hundreds, or even thousands of years of collective practice they'd get really good at it. So with those skills, what do you have to add to the stone walls to get walls good enough for a house?