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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"
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> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: cow's blood in floors
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> > 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.
> >
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