{"id":1706,"date":"2010-06-30T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2010-06-30T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:15:49","slug":"medieval-castle-medieval-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Castle, Medieval Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"13th-century-style<\/a>

The Chateau de Guedelon, currently under construction<\/p><\/div>\n

The BBC describes an ongoing project in France to build a 13th-century castle using local materials and the tools and techniques of that era.<\/a><\/p>\n

I am always fascinated by what people learn by building old things in old ways, be they ships (like Tim Severin’s “Brendan boat”<\/a>) or buildings or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC describes an ongoing project in France to build a 13th-century castle using local materials and the tools and techniques of that era. I am always fascinated by what people learn by building old things in old ways, be they ships (like Tim Severin’s “Brendan boat”) or buildings or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-rw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9176,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9176","url_meta":{"origin":1706,"position":0},"title":"A Fire at the Castle","author":"Chas S. 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