Cob Introduction, question.

[Paul Valerio]

Brian,

Try Cal-Earth's website: http://www.calearth.org
I haven't looked at it in a while, but look for Nader Kahlili's book on "earth
architecture and ceramic houses" or something to that effect.  I haven't read
the book (yet) but I do know that it discusses the very issue of "fired"
houses.

pv

Hathaway wrote:

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> One of the first things that struck me when reading the cob article was my
> memory of a series of odd "dun" towers in Scotland that had long mystified
> archaeologists, as they seemed to be made of impossibly large stones. More
> recent research has revealed that in fact they were clay structures which
> had been filled with wood and brush, and covered with more of the same,
> then "fired" like a clay pot.