Building a Medieval Timber Framed Granary House with Hand Tools - Part II | Anglo-Saxon Woodworking скачать в хорошем качестве

Building a Medieval Timber Framed Granary House with Hand Tools - Part II | Anglo-Saxon Woodworking

The Anglo-Saxons built raised granaries to store their grain and food away from mice and rats, and keep it off the damp ground. Following Early Anglo-Saxon building traditions, the granaries would have been made from timber; either a framed or log-built construction. These timbers could be hewn into shape with axes, to make them straight and square for easy timber joinery. I use sturdy oak timbers as sills for the base of the granary, which will sit on staddle stones. Staddles, are posts or stones on which raised structures were built, and have a unique form and function. They are traditional throughout Europe in varying forms, but all share a common 'mushroom' shape, consisting of an upright post or stone, which a large flat cap on top, which forms a wide lip or overlap over the post beneath. This overlapping cap means that any rodents which attempt to climb the post, are unable to climb upside down and around the lip of the 'mushroom cap' preventing them from reaching the granary resting on the stables above. In England, mushroom shaped staddle stones were common from at least the 16th century onwards, and many still survive today along verges and driveways on old estates. In Northern Europe, particularly Norway, log-built granaries and root cellars known as 'stabbur' were traditional, built on wooden posts with wide half logs laid on top and overlapping as the cap. The Northwest Iberian 'hórreo' used tapering wooden posts capped with large flat rocks to achieve the same mushroom effect. From archaeological post-hole evidence, it is clear that Roman granaries were built on wooden posts buried in the ground, and these may have had a similar capping stone or log. We don't know exactly what an Anglo-Saxon granary may have looked like above the buried posts at ground level, but based on the Roman and Medieval English traditions, I decided to use buried oak posts with flat capping stones. this is in keeping with Anglo-Saxon post-built building technology, with the flat stones being a nod to later English Medieval staddles. I cut up a storm-felled oak to find good oak posts for my staddles. Although the timber had been felled for a few years, and the sapwood was rotten, the heartwood was of course, being oak, still perfect. I hewed off all the punk sapwood to leave some nice oak heartwood posts. Oak heartwood has a high tannin content and is therefore very resistant to rot; a buried oak post might last 20-40 years depending on how dry it is kept. The flat rocks sit well on the oak posts, and the oak sills were lapped into each other by cutting half lap scarfs with an axe. Each scarf is cut so that every sill rests its lower width above the post, for stability, strength and to prevent any weak spots that might lead to the sills sagging over time. With thanks to: Grzegorz Kulig, Silversmith, for making the pattern-welded knife. Hector Cole, Blacksmith, for forging the T-shaped hewing axe. If you would like to support me further, you can become a patron here:   / gesithasgewissa   Join this channel to become a member:    / @gesithasgewissa   Or make a one-off donation: https://paypal.me/gesithasgewissa   / gesithasgewissa     / gesithasgewissa