I learned today that parts of the stonework of a number of
medieval buildings is held together by iron staples.

A couple of articles that discuss this technology are:

Of iron and fire: the metals of Notre-Dame through the centuries
Info Chretienne, August 2, 2022
[en.infochretienne.com]

Rebuilding Notre Dame, Painstaking Battle Between New and Old
Carol A. Seidl, cas d'interet, 2022
[casdinteret.com]
[casdinteret.com]

Rebuilding Notre Dame | Full Documentary
NOVA | PBS, December 14, 2022
[www.youtube.com] at 19:40

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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