CSPAN3 March 11, 2012
williamsburg who designed timber frame technology of the time period and what we've done with the timber frames, is outlined the buildings with the framing because if we put on the siding, we don't have enough information to put on the siding, put in the windows and doorways because we haven't done enough archeology in the area. the second point with not doing enough archeology in the area. if we put a roof and siding on the buildings, they would have a wind load, we would have to put in footers which would disturb the archeological record. the footers are on the ground surface, the ...
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