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Looks quite interesting. Is this yours?
 
janusz692 said:
yes, it took me a year of work and now I wanted to show off :)
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Well it's great! Nicely done on the layout, I'm finding it very easy to navigate and altogether aesthetically pleasant.

You took all these photos yourself? Quite a lot of great work here.
 
The-Doc said:
Well it's great! Nicely done on the layout, I'm finding it very easy to navigate and altogether aesthetically pleasant.

You took all these photos yourself? Quite a lot of great work here.
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photos taken by me are signed by J.Michalew, there are quite a lot of them but considering the extent of the area I was not able to reach personally everywhere so I had to take photos of others, mainly from wikipedia, I try to give a description of the author and source under each photo
thanks for the words of appreciation :)
 
Very nice initiative. I applaud this! :)
 
Nice update.

Is there any particular reason for the prevalence of terra-cotta tiling for roofing on so many of these buildings?
 
The-Doc said:
Nice update.

Is there any particular reason for the prevalence of terra-cotta tiling for roofing on so many of these buildings?
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thanks, honestly, I do not know, tile is certainly the most popular method of roofing used already in antiquity and middle ages, shingle coverage is now very rare, not even speaking of thatch.
 
Great resource, thank you!
 
The-Doc said:
Nice update.

Is there any particular reason for the prevalence of terra-cotta tiling for roofing on so many of these buildings?
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Roofing choices reflect a combination of available materials and initial outlay vs ongoing costs as well as other considerations. Slate roofing requires a local source of suitable slate. Terracotta requires a local source of suitable clay. The choice of which to use is very often dependent on what you have access to.

Thatch is a low initial cost material but needs regular maintenance and is very vulnerable to fire. In the case of large public buildings such as churches, palaces and castles there are sufficient funds to make thatch a poor choice. In the case of small private buildings such as farmhouses there is far less funds for roofing so the cheaper initial cost product is often chosen (thatch or turf).
 
I added English-language monuments from WALES, more than three hundred castles, monasteries, abbeys, churches, neolithic burial chambers and many more appeared on the site. I invite you to familiarize yourself with such wonderful monuments as castles in Caernarfon, Pembroke, or Chepstow, the Roman fort of Venta Silurium (Caerwent), the burial chamber of Bryn Celli Ddu or the medieval bishop’s palaces in St Davids and Llandew.

https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/
 
Outstanding stuff! I was doing some reading on Wales in the 12th-15th centuries and having a map to place all the location names is quite nice.
 
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