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.