"Peter Scott" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Following up the thread on this of a couple of weeks back - here's a
cracker from this morning's paper (you'll need to buy a hard copy to
see
the pictures unfortunately...)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...484880,00.html

I can see a picture.

Ah - so can I, now: it's obviously been added in during the morning!
It looks a pretty amazing collapse. There seems to be little rubble, so
perhaps the walls were clay lump? That can collapse disastrously like that
if water seeps in. Perhaps the thatch had become porous?

Peter Scott



it was covered in the "Metro" free rag today - here's a larger, but rather
poor scan I just did :-

http://uk.geocities.com/gentlegreengiant/dunhomein.jpg (600kb)

says he only removed some stud walls ....

would this have been of "cob" construction ?