... and if you want to see what it looks like when a bomb hits it then have a look at this photo of Henderson Field in Solomon Islands after a Japanese raid:
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Guadalcanal/img/USA-P-Guadalcanal-27a.jpg
Just as Denis noted for Norfolk Island, Marston matting is still being used in the Solomons for fencing, pig pens etc. etc.
Regards
David
Dr David Roe
Archaeology Manager
Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
Port Arthur
Tasmania
Australia 7182
(ph) 03 6251 2368
(mob) 0457 675 357
(fax) 03 6251 2322
www.portarthur.org.au and www.femalefactory.org.au
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An airfield was constructed on Norfolk Island, somewhere in the south Pacific as they used to say, with these interlinked plates, taking up a vast percentage of available land. Since the airfield was upgraded the plates have become a valuable item for fencing, animal enclosures, crossing drainage channels and all manner of uses.
A sort of Legolandesque capital.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston_Mat
"Large quantities of matting were produced; approximately 2 million tons costing more than US$200 million (in the 1940s).[4] At the end of the war a large amount of the material remained as war surplus and was pressed into use in various civil engineering applications such as road and bridge construction."
Am 26.04.2016 um 03:14 schrieb David Babson:
> I've seen this in a lot of World War II photos, especially of Pacific > Theater airfield runways. I've also seen smaller amounts of it, in person, > on U.S. Army installations, such as Fort Riley, Kansas, where (early 1990s) > there were a few low spots in less-used tank trails that had this material > laid down across the direction of traffic, roughly like logs across a > corduroy road. In dry weather, driving across a section of this pavement > makes an ungodly clatter. I never new what it was called, and always > thought of it as that "World War II Airfield Stuff." I'll take the > education, and now know it as "Marston Mat." I figure the U.S.
produced
> trainload lots of it for World War II, then stored some and surplus-ed the > rest, when they were left with said trainloads in 1945. It was probably > the go-to item for a quick road improvement at any DoD facility, through > the 1970s.
>
> D. Babson.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:28 PM, David Parkhill wrote:
>
>> We used these steel plates in Korea to build airfield landing strips.
>> Reason. Simple to put together, low cost, repaired broken strips in a very >> quick time.
>>
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>> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike >> Polk >> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 5:12 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: Artifact Identification >> >> A suggestion is that this represents portable vehicular pads.
During the
>> Vietnam war steel mesh squares which could be snapped together were used to >> make portable helicopter pads and roads through areas which could not >> otherwise be landed on or driven across.
>>
>> When I was running the field portion of the Tombigbee waterway Historic >> Townsites Project in 1980, I got permission to purchase enough of this to >> build a road over very muddy soils. We ended up using gravel, but if that >> had not worked, purchase of a portable road from a surplus guy in Oklahoma >> was our next move.
>>
>> Mike Polk
>> Commonwealth Heritage Group
>> Ogden, Utah
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Hannah Russell >> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I found this material at a 1960's military complex in southeast Utah >>> and am looking for some ideas of what it might be. Funny story, >>> within a week of recording this site, I was at a bar in Salt Lake City >>> and there was a room divider made out of the same material. The >>> pictures of the material in situ and at the bar can be found at the link >> below to a google photo album.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> https://goo.gl/photos/3HfR3xJiqtUBiqDQ7
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for you help!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hannah Russell, RPA
>>> Cottonwood Archaeology, LLC
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>>> (435) 210-0414
>>
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