06-26-2010, 07:33 PM
Hi Gilbert,
.... IIRC they did not reconstruct the wooden tower at Rainau-Buch with plasters, because they tried and ran into durability issues.
As far as I also can recall, I myself was severely swearing and cursing while trying to plaster "around" the edges in my house. O.K. I'm not a "learned" craftsman of that trade,
..... but this was inside and not exposed to weather of any kind. :oops:
The other one reconstructed by the same team (Around arcitect Siegbert Huther) will be risen near Michelstadt and be sporting only minor changes, if I understood them right here:
They will mod the decorative woodworking a bit. (Decorative woodworking in roman times will be dealt with in Siegbert Huther's doctorate papers which I mentioned in my report.)
In context of the Friedrichhall-Kochendorf numerus camp I remember them saying that (at least on the Odenwald-Limes) these smaller camps would be built a the sites of watchtowers.
The demonstrative pic they showed at Michelstadt made clear the relations between watchtower(s) and camp. (Although I cannot remember whether there was both a wooden and a stone watchtower before, here
a I was a bit too far away to notice all details of the pics and tables they projected.=
So I'm looking forward for the Saalburg Museum to publish the papers of this colloqium and I'll be reporting on that publication. ( In that other thread )
The construction techniques involved most of the building/woodworking techniques we know today ( except for electric tools, of course) and S. Huther mentioned the were even more (and hitherto lost)
woodworking techniques utilized by the Romans, about which he said he would detail them in his doctorate papers. ( A friend of mine, -- carpenter,-- is already drooling for that book ! :mrgreen: )
As to the Pohl website: it clearly shows plastered tower exteriors and external gallery, the later one , according to both Schallmayer and Huther would have led to stability issues on "the average tower" and besides this
the traces of the water running from the eaves provided no place for such a gallery, being quite close to the foundations' traces on both the wooden and stone-watchtower (on the Odenwald-Limes).
Maybe the Saalburg publication will shed a more focused light on that.
Hoping to have been of service.
Greez
Simplex
.... IIRC they did not reconstruct the wooden tower at Rainau-Buch with plasters, because they tried and ran into durability issues.
As far as I also can recall, I myself was severely swearing and cursing while trying to plaster "around" the edges in my house. O.K. I'm not a "learned" craftsman of that trade,
..... but this was inside and not exposed to weather of any kind. :oops:
The other one reconstructed by the same team (Around arcitect Siegbert Huther) will be risen near Michelstadt and be sporting only minor changes, if I understood them right here:
They will mod the decorative woodworking a bit. (Decorative woodworking in roman times will be dealt with in Siegbert Huther's doctorate papers which I mentioned in my report.)
In context of the Friedrichhall-Kochendorf numerus camp I remember them saying that (at least on the Odenwald-Limes) these smaller camps would be built a the sites of watchtowers.
The demonstrative pic they showed at Michelstadt made clear the relations between watchtower(s) and camp. (Although I cannot remember whether there was both a wooden and a stone watchtower before, here
a I was a bit too far away to notice all details of the pics and tables they projected.=
So I'm looking forward for the Saalburg Museum to publish the papers of this colloqium and I'll be reporting on that publication. ( In that other thread )
The construction techniques involved most of the building/woodworking techniques we know today ( except for electric tools, of course) and S. Huther mentioned the were even more (and hitherto lost)
woodworking techniques utilized by the Romans, about which he said he would detail them in his doctorate papers. ( A friend of mine, -- carpenter,-- is already drooling for that book ! :mrgreen: )
As to the Pohl website: it clearly shows plastered tower exteriors and external gallery, the later one , according to both Schallmayer and Huther would have led to stability issues on "the average tower" and besides this
the traces of the water running from the eaves provided no place for such a gallery, being quite close to the foundations' traces on both the wooden and stone-watchtower (on the Odenwald-Limes).
Maybe the Saalburg publication will shed a more focused light on that.
Hoping to have been of service.
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.