I have tested around a barn on Long Island's North Shore, which was taken
down and reassembled in a County Park (removed from a National Register
Nomination) that was later burned, most of the timbers were destroyed.
Interestingly for LI. it was a small barn and there is a moderately deep
hole where it had been, but appears more like the earth was banked up
against the bottom with the exit/entrance down slope. The members were
marked in roman numerals in the original, I' pretty sure (they were evident
on the burned one, and it was related to me by Edward Johanneman. MA, that
those were the original marks.
I have a friend of a friend, a grandson of one of the constitutional authors
of the Japanese and Philippine constitutions (I think) whose older brothers
builds classic barns on Long Island who may be a source of information if
need be.
George Myers
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