Re: The Newport Tower - some reflections, and a question

It's like wading through treacle, but I'll have a go...


Inger E.(Norah) wrote:

<snip early windmills>

I am not willing at this stage to stress either case. But I seriously
doubt
the Governor's case.
Why? Over the years I understood that most here aren't familiar with
stonemason work. Neither when it comes to 'cutting' nor dressing. And
yes
large cut stones can be transported long distances before being dressed.
And
also specific size of stones can be ordered and transported. BUT I never
ever seen a place where a stonehouse, stonebuilding etc been made and
none
of the remains from dressing, which always is needed more or less
depending
fitting together, been found. If I understand it correctly no such place
been found during the latest digging.
That does surprise me no matter when it was made.

Remains from stone dressing would be small stone chips. (and I'm not
sure that the stonework of the Newport Tower can really be described as
"dressed").

I know perfectly well how the 'small stone chips' looks like. I am partly
owner of land where this type of mason was located. Not only that. I
completely don't agree with you that the stones wasn't dressed close in
place of Newport Tower.

What I meant was that the stones have barely been dressed *at all*,
whether at the tower site or anywhere else. They are little more than
field stone with some rough hacking to size.

Last weekend I walked the streets of Brüssel on
gate-stones to look at monuments which my own grandfather back in 1910-1920
had had to follow with the ships delivering dressed, exact pre-ordered,
stones to do the final dressing! I doubt that the calculation of which stone
that should be placed where was better before 1500 then in 1900's!

And were there stone chips lying around last weekend in the streets of
Brussels where these monuments had the final dressing done and were
installed nearly a hundred years ago?

No?

So why should there be stone chips lying round just below the surface
at Newport?

Gareth

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