Stone and Wood: Landscape and Material Culture in Tuscia - Collections

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Stone working: 1. Building in the negative (Section stone bricklayer work)

Belong to this first group predominantly to direct percussion tools (picks and axes) serving for the excavation of rock cavities and for finishing of the walls or of the architectural closure elements (jambs of doors and windows) and furnishings (niches, pallets).

Stone working: 2. building stone (Section stone mason work, iron and metals section)

A second group of tools instead regards, the different phases of production of building stone; from the quarry cultivation (peaks quarry) at the first and second finishing blocks (toothed and smooth hammers, bush hammers, hammers for working slate)

Woodworking: primary processing (Section wood)

In the Woodworking cycle stands the part of demolition (dark) and dry tree with the liberation of the branches (ASCE and pruning knives) and the cortex (scortecciatori), then moved to the first sawing (crosscut saw); belong instead to the work of the carpenter Tools What many regard as trimming and finishing, diversification for EVERY type of artifact What we can draw from the wood. Here, an illustrative title, were Indicated SOME common tools to all types of processing (planers, drills and Team).

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