Library Research
Town Houses
- Tiled Floor
- One or two room houses
- Shops on ground floor of their home
- Top floors leaned over the street to maximize space
- At sunset the bells rang to tell everyone to finish work and go home.
- No streetlights
- Streets were dark and dangerous at night.
- Watchmen paroled with a lantern to watch for criminals
- Visors had to pay a toll to enter
Stonemasons
- Some did sculptures
- skilled stonemasons were some of the highest paid craftsmen
- Apprentices would learn for up to 7 yrs
- The design was written on leather or parchment the copied onto the stone.
- Chisels had a mark of their owner and were passed down by generations
- Dividers or Wing Compasses were the stonemasons emblam
Castle Building
- Between wooden beams masons put a mixture of clay and animal dung to waterproof them.
- A billhook was used as a cutting tool
- Master Mason was a supervisor.
- Freemasons would cut the stone
- Rough Masons cut simple shapes for the freemasons.