 To obviate this defect the following process is adopted :—The stone being quarried in small slabs and fragments is built in a pile about 30 feet square and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is in progress brushwood is mingled...  Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 3131881Full view - About this book
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 594 pages
...being quarried in small slabs and fragments, is built in a pile about 30 feet square, and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is...inches thick, at equal distances, are, so to speak, intcrstratified with the sandstones, and a third thin layer is strewn over the top. At the bottom,... | |
 | Andrew Crombie Ramsay - 1878 - 700 pages
...being quarried in small slabs and fragments, is built in a pile about 30 feet square, and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is...layer is strewn over the top. At the bottom facing the prevalent wind, an opening about 2 feet high is left, something like the mouth of an oven. Into this... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1883 - 382 pages
...being quarried in small slabs and fragments is built in a pile about 30 feet square and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is...coal about 3 inches thick, at equal distances, are intcrstratiued with the sandstones, and a third layer is strewn over the top. At the bottom, facing... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1883 - 362 pages
...being quarried in small slabs and fragments is built in a pile about 30 feet squarc and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is...coal about 3 inches thick, at equal distances, are interstratified with the sandstones, and a third layer is strewn over the top. At the bottom, facing... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1883 - 378 pages
...being quarried in small slabs and fragments is built in a pile about 30 feet square and 12 or 14 feet high, somewhat loosely ; and while the building is...coal about 3 inches thick, at equal distances, are interstratified with the sandstones, and a third layer is strewn over the top. At the bottom, facing... | |
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