"Château de Guédelon - inspiration for medieval modellers?" Topic
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| Warspite1 | 10 Jan 2021 4:51 a.m. PST |
For those of you who do not know Château de Guédelon is a French project to build a medieval castle, entirely from scratch, using only medieval tools, materials and working practices.
There are no power tools, the scaffolding is wooden and they burn their own limestone to manufacture the quicklime to make the cement. The stone is quarried on site.
It has been featured on British TV several times. This is a September 2020 update and walk-around:
YouTube link
Full history of the project here:
link Barry |
| Legionarius | 10 Jan 2021 11:40 a.m. PST |
Interesting architectural reenactment. Hopefully we will learn a thing or two from this project. |
| Warspite1 | 10 Jan 2021 12:45 p.m. PST |
If you watch some of the documentaries they already have, This Haynes book covers the site in detail: link Nearly all the Haynes books are available for much less from High Street branches of The Works in the UK. Barry |
| Jcfrog | 11 Jan 2021 9:05 a.m. PST |
You can chose from 100s of real ones too. |
| MacColla | 18 Jan 2021 12:25 p.m. PST |
@Jcfrog, you can visit hundreds or real ones but mainly they're not currently being built using period methods. That is the point of the construction project/TV and other documentaries. |
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