Silly me. When I said 'exotic' I meant 'not used very often for
construction purposes etc'.
As for the cutting across the grain, I do recall one huge lump of trunk
that was about 30cm in diameter that had obviously been brought down
with a bronze axe, and was a bugger to cut a slice from with a hand-saw.
I got hand-sore (groan).
Stuart
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Stuart D. Elder, MIAI
Licensed Archaeologist
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People, There's been some discussion on the Britarch group about the uses to which flint and copper axes might have been put. It is a subject as much...
I'm of the opinion that good old fashioned experimental work can't be a bad thing. James Mathieu published some work on this in a BAR volume in 2002, and I...
Barry Molloy
viacras@...
Mar 1, 2006 1:57 pm
Barry, ... Yep, I've seen this, and also read similar discussions and spoken with people who've experimented with stone axes of varying types. [snip] ... True,...
I'm sorry to come back to this if no one wants to talk about it and I have been waiting for someone else to point this out, but as I would like to know the...
Kevin, ... Don't be sorry. This sort of activity is what the group is here for, after all. ... Well, the original issue was really about the purpose to which...
... Good. That was what I thought and expected. They're the only native species that are really abundant islandwide and burn well enough (hot and slow without ...
Stuart, ... Damn. I got hold of a copy from the local library recently, but I was looking for something totally different. It'll ake me weeks to get hold of it...
Stiof, Silly me. When I said 'exotic' I meant 'not used very often for construction purposes etc'. As for the cutting across the grain, I do recall one huge...
Stuart, ... Thought so... A nerdy point, but worth making (spot the tree nerd!) as there is a terrible lack of awareness even amongst 'environmentalists' here...
... Stiof, It was actually lying beside a trackway, not an integral part of it. There was a hollowed out log utilised as a /Fulacht fiadh /trough. It had been...
Stuart, ... No indication of its intended pupose at all? ... Don't you just love it when that happens? 8-) ... Sure, that'd be interesting. ... He gets me back...
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