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Category Archives: archaeology
What’s a clay dabbin?
“The first thing people do is stroke the walls – it’s tactile, there’s something about it that makes people want to touch it.” Alex Gibbons On April 28th 2017 the first clay dabbins building to be constructed on … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, coastal history, conservation
Tagged clay dabbin, earth buildings, EBUKI, oxblood floor, volunteers
Snippets 5: Angels, salt and shroud-pins
Pat Bull unlocked a peeling black door and showed me into a small brick-walled room. On the plain wooden table which almost filled the space were small polythene bags and boxes, labelled in black feltpen with numbers and letters. At … Continue reading
