Not just castles. At New Year our music group played for two days in a 17th century cottage at the Weald & Downland Open-air Museum. Luckily the weather wasn't freezing as it had been for a spell after Christmas, but even with a log fire we were none too warm (especially with the door being constantly opened by punters). However, I reckoned that in real life the stones would have gradually absorbed heat and acted like a storage heater.
Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/01/2006 23:06 >>> Audrey Bergeron-Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> I have spent the weekend at an event >> in an English castle and I can tell you they are still damp. > >Were there any fires inside? Most of the castles we visited in France >were damp and cold, but twice we visited castles where the chimneys >had been restored so they'd made a fire inside - makes a whole world >of difference. They would still be cold in the winter, though... > I have always thought that once you built a castle and got the fires going, and then kept the fires going, winter and summer alike, it probably held the heat better than you might expect. Thick stone walls are certainly very good insulation when it comes to keeping heat out - one event inside a castle at Easter, we were going outside to warm up! Jean -- Jean Waddie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
