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Dear All,
Sorry not to have replied to the thread earlier. Thesis, day job and
life in general sometimes get in the way of interesting conversations!
Those who are interested in bricks might like to sign up to
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exclusively so, and non-UK members are very welcome.
On collections of brick: in the US there was a study of architectural
collections conducted by the National Parks Service some years ago
(_Second Lives_ by Emogene A. Bevitt). There is an outline at
http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/16-5/16-5-7.pdf. Something similar is
being proposed in Britain.
Here in the UK, CBM (ceramic building material) is a very poor cousin to
'real' ceramics - they get money and time lavished upon them (well, not
lavished, given barely adequate resources would be nearer to the mark)
where CBM not only doesn't get its specialist reports, it often doesn't
even make it to processing .... There's this narrative which says that
bricks and tiles can't tell an archaeologist anything ....
I'd be interested in any other positive identification of bricks with a
'Dutch' origin in unexpected places, as my area of study is the
transmission of a Low Countries building technique. For the expected
places - the VOC and WIC (Dutch East and West Indies companies) colonies
there is often documentary or archaeological evidence for bricks and
other building materials arriving as cargos. Various places around the
coast of Britain (are alleged to) have 'Dutch' bricks (or, earlier,
Flanders tiles). Pat Ryan's _Brick in Essex_ (1996) discusses this very
fully.
Best wishes to all
Pat
(and I was very interested to learn about the boat/buildings)
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Pat Reynolds
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"It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
(T. Pratchett)
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