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Roman Sun-Dried Bricks: Chalky or Red Clay with Straw, Moulded in Spring or Autumn, Dried Two Years (Vitruvius)
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Roman Sun-Dried Bricks: Chalky or Red Clay with Straw, Moulded in Spring or Autumn, Dried Two Years (Vitruvius)

Unburnt brick as Vitruvius describes it in Book II: smooth white-chalky or red clay (never sandy or pebbly) with straw, moulded in spring or autumn so it dries evenly, and left two years before building, in the Roman Lydian size of 1 1/2 by 1 foot or the Greek four- and five-palm squares.
Byrjandi
A day to mould; two years to dry

Leiðbeiningar

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His sizes

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Read Vitruvius

"Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time."
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Choose the clay

Use white chalky clay, red clay, or even a coarse-grained gravelly clay. Not sandy or pebbly clay or fine gravel: such bricks are heavy, break up in the rain, and the straw will not hold in them.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

LeirLeir1 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

SkóflaSkófla
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Temper with straw

Work the clay with water and straw into a stiff mass (amounts ours).

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

LeirLeir1 stykki
Saxað hálmstráSaxað hálmstrá1 stykki
VatnVatn1 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

Haki (garðhaki)Haki (garðhaki)
FataFata
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Mould in spring or autumn

Mould the bricks in spring or autumn, never summer, when the sun bakes the face dry over a wet core and the shrinking cracks them. Size: Lydian 1 1/2 x 1 ft (about 440 x 300 mm) for Roman work, or the Greek tetradoron (4 palms square) and pentadoron (5 palms square). Make half-bricks too.

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

Tréform fyrir múrsteinaTréform fyrir múrsteina
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Dry two years

Stack and let them dry two years before building. Fresh bricks shrink and settle in the wall, the stucco parts from them and breaks off. (At Utica only bricks five years old, passed by a magistrate, were allowed.)

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

SkóflaSkófla
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Troubleshooting

Brick troubleshooting.

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History and honest limits

From Vitruvius, **The Ten Books on Architecture**, Book II ch. III, tr. M. H. Morgan (1914), pp. 42-44 (checked on the archive.org scan vitruviustenbook00vitruoft). He gives no thickness, mould or straw amount; those and the metric sizes (Roman foot taken as about 296 mm) are ours.

Efni

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  • 2 stykki
    Staðgengill
  • Staðgengill
  • 1 stykki
    Staðgengill

Nauðsynleg verkfæri

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