Yes, it is in a chapter about the architecture of the Midlands when he is particularly focusing on Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Silas Hurry


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From: Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> 

> In ENGLAND? How interesting. 
> Thank you. 
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> From: "Kate and Silas" 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:41 PM 
> Subject: Re: cow's blood in floors 
> 
> 
> > Interestingly enough, M. W. Barley in his classic "The English Farmhouse 
> and Cottage" ( 1961) says "It must long ago been discovered that clay mixed 
> with oxblood and ashes made a hard floor which might even be polished" (page 
> 82). So the blood and clay story has precedents in the UK. 
> > 
> > Silas Hurry 
> > HSMC 
> > 
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> > From: Susan Walter 
> > 
> > > June 28, 2008 
> > > 
> > > Hello All, 
> > > Working in San Diego Old Town, we are bedeviled by trying to tease out 
> fact from 
> > > oral traditions... 
> > > 
> > > A current one we are dealing with regards the claim that cow's blood was 
> a 
> > > component of packed earthen floors. 
> > > 
> > > Long time residents of Baja that we know deny this as a fact. Their 
> packed 
> > > earthen floors are solidified simply with water. Other historians we 
> have 
> > > questioned have not found this blood addition was done. 
> > > 
> > > So, 
> > > 1. Has anyone in the Histarch community heard of this? 
> > > 2. Is there documentation of it? 
> > > 3. Where and who documented it? 
> > > 
> > > Many thanks, 
> > > S. Walter 
> > > 
> > > PS: Then, when you are finished with bloody floors, there is the story 
> that 
> > > roof tiles were shaped over maidens thighs... And we can follow up with 
> > > documenting the number of girl's petticoats that were torn up to make 
> American 
> > > flags... And, oh Lord save us from Ramona. 
> >