Kitty Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have always thought that once you built a castle and got the fires
going, and then kept the fires going, winter and summer alike, it
probably held the heat better than you might expect. Thick stone walls
are certainly very good insulation when it comes to keeping heat out -
one event inside a castle at Easter, we were going outside to warm up!
COMMENT
Very few castle museums I've ever visited in the last mumble-mumble years,
anywhere in the UK or in Western Europe, have been re-furnished the way they
were - so 2 critical parts of the furnishings have been missing - the
enveloping wall-hangings in all the chambers and across the doorways, and those
fires.
Yours in Service,
Matthew
["Messire Matthew Baker", Governor & Castellan of Jersey, 1486-1497:
Motto - "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (Trans:-"if you wish for Peace, prepare
for War") ]
aka. - Julian Wilson, - late-medieval Re-enactor; Herald, Historian, &
Master Artisan to
"The Companie of the Duke's Leopards",
[the Island of "olde" Jersey's only mediæval living-history Group]
Meet us at < www.dukesleopards.org >"
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