The Etruscan house and the Chinese mortar particularly.
I'm glad to hear that. I'm pleased with the mortar, myself. Now I want to excavate in China simply so I can find out if it feels different to the sort of lime mortar that was used in these parts.* I also feel a strange urge to learn how to make it so I can build something with it, which is even sillier.
I hope you're feeling better soon.
*I was taught to crumble a little sample of mortar between my fingers to tell lime mortar from the more modern Portland cement. Lime crumbles to sand, Portland has little gravelly bits in it. At least that's what I'm told; the only Portland on any of the sites I've worked on was in buildings that were still standing, and for some reason they wouldn't let us knock one of them down so we could have a look at the mortar.
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I'm glad to hear that. I'm pleased with the mortar, myself. Now I want to excavate in China simply so I can find out if it feels different to the sort of lime mortar that was used in these parts.* I also feel a strange urge to learn how to make it so I can build something with it, which is even sillier.
I hope you're feeling better soon.
*I was taught to crumble a little sample of mortar between my fingers to tell lime mortar from the more modern Portland cement. Lime crumbles to sand, Portland has little gravelly bits in it. At least that's what I'm told; the only Portland on any of the sites I've worked on was in buildings that were still standing, and for some reason they wouldn't let us knock one of them down so we could have a look at the mortar.