#Stonemasons

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Jon III

“I don’t see your wolf,” Lannister said as they walked.

“I chain him up in the old stables when we’re training. They board all the horses in the east stables now, so no one bothers him. The rest of the time he stays with me.

“My sleeping cell is in Hardin’s Tower.”

“That’s the one with the broken battlement, no? Shattered stone in the yard below, and a lean to it like our noble king Robert after a long night’s drinking? I thought all those buildings had been abandoned.”

“It’s better that I’m by myself,” Jon said stubbornly. “The rest of them are scared of Ghost.”

“Wise boys,” Lannister said.

Jon shrugged. “No one cares where you sleep. Most of the old keeps are empty, you can pick any cell you want.”

Once Castle Black had housed five thousand fighting men with all their horses and servants and weapons. Now it was home to a tenth that number, and parts of it were falling into ruin.

Tyrion Lannister’s laughter steamed in the cold air. “I’ll be sure to tell your father to arrest more stonemasons, before your tower collapses.”

Jon could taste the mockery there, but there was no denying the truth.

[large-frog]

im a real person btw im just fucked up

[zsorosebudphoto]

Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 9-11-24

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[deadstonemasonssociety]

Hands: Dublin Stonecutters

Narrated by Éamonn Mac Thomáis. Filmed in 1981.

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[eerna]

the ancient hero armor set in TotK is like "so yeah the Hero from the first Calamity was actually not Hylian. he wasn't Zonai either. he was a secret third thing that has no name and the only other example can be found in weird statues in the Depths. HOWEVER he does wear Zonai clothes! but also Hylian body paint. no we will not elaborate further nor ever xoxo <3" insane absolutely INSANE

[thesilicontribesman]

'Green Man' Stone Carving Found In The Moat Of Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

[minijenn]

Got another commission here, this time for @editorishere, who wanted some casual bonding between Dipper, Mabel, and Stonemason in the UFF era. Affectionately known by then as the Pines Triplets, bless em, they're playing Smash Bros, Dipper is actually losing but he has no idea bc he's never played it before, meanwhile Stonemason and Mabel are neck in neck for first and they're both taking it way too seriously

[empatheticpsychopath]

h e a v y c r o s s

[large-frog]

[intolunarorbit]

About that spiral staircase myth

I saw a post on tumblr yesterday about the common misconception that medieval staircases spiral clockwise so that an attacker going up the stairs will have less space to swing their weapon due to the central pillar. I responded clarifying that this (very likely) was not the case but was asked to make a standalone post on it so this is that post (I'm also changing some information because I also got some details wrong in that response)

Disclaimer: I'm not a historian, my knowledge on the subject is based off of a blog post and my knowledge of medieval warfare from my high school history course on the Wars of the Roses and going to several castles. I'm primarily talking about castles in England and Wales but the things I'm saying are largely true throughout medieval Europe and I encourage people to give examples from other countries in the notes!

Firstly medieval staircases do NOT universally spiral clockwise, if it did provide a massive defensive boost then all spiral staircases would be clockwise. While the trend is for clockwise spirals, it's nowhere near universal (only about 70%), with several castles (such as caerphilly castle and the white tower in london) having both clockwise and counterclockwise. The spiral staircases were also not the only set of stairs in most castles, with them having internal stairs which were straight - or at least not as curved as spiral staircases. The purpose of the spiral staircase was mostly to get soldiers and supplies to and from the battlements; a potential attacker would be more likely to use the non-spiral staircases since they would be easier to climb

From a hand-to-hand combat perspective, the clockwise spiral staircase does not provide the defender with an advantage in combat. In melee combat the high ground is disadvantageous: you can reach much further up than you can down, and reaching down requires bending over, which in plate armour could risk your balance and would definitely make your head more exposed to attack. The placement of the walls and pillars also makes no difference, spiral staircases were either very spacious (such as in Colchester castle where the staircase's diameter was 5 metres (16ft)) which means there is very little concern for the walls or pillar while fighting, or very narrow (like the great tower of Goorich castle with only a diameter of 70cm (2.5ft)) where both parties will have to worry about hitting the wall or pillar either during the swing or recovery from it.

Most importantly, however is the fact that in the medieval period, knights did not fight within castles, and castles were not built with the expectation of knights fighting within them, with some castles even being built with no siege-readiness at all. In the next paragraph I will be talking purely about castles which were designed to be defended (such as a lot of the castles built during the conquest of Wales) but do note that a lot of them were not and were designed to house local nobility or for a government purpose like a courthouse or a prison.

A castle's role in combat was to be a safe place for an army to rest and re-supply, and typically if there was an attacking army approaching the castle the defenders would leave the castle and fight them head on in pitched combat. If they did not there would be a siege, where the attackers cut off the supply line to the castle and wait for either the defenders to surrender (due to starvation or negotiation), or for the defences to be breached with a siege weapon or through sabotage. Once attackers are within the castle the battle has been lost for the defenders as their defences are overrun. So this is why the interiors of castles were not designed to be defendable, as it's a futile effort.

And finally to talk about the history of the claim: no medieval sources have said that they did clockwise spirals for this purpose. To be fair this is largely because the people who built and designed castles typically could not read or write, but the point still stands that the claim that the spiral staircases were clockwise for this purpose is not supported by history. The earliest written example of this is in a 1902 architecture history book by Theodore Cook. Cook, being interested in fencing, saw clockwise spiral staircases and observed that it would be difficult to fence when going upstairs in a clockwise spiral, and concluded that this is why medieval castles use them.

This is part of the trend of Victorian historians asserting their assumptions of history as fact (as well as inventing facts of their own to add to the spectacle or intrigue of the past - you have them to thank for the myth that Vikings had horned helmets and that Columbus was trying to disprove that the earth was flat, not even beginning to touch on their views towards non-white culture and history), as well as the military-first view of castle designs. This myth has largely stuck around since there's very little evidence to propose an alternate reason for the particular direction of spiral staircases (as an aside: my personal assumption is that they made the staircases go in whatever direction made it best line up with the floors of the castle).

In summary, since spiral staircases aren't universally clockwise, are impractical to fight on for the defenders as well as the attackers, and would not have been fought on anyways due to the nature of castle warfare, the consensus is that spiral staircases did not spiral clockwise in order to give defenders an advantage.

[pouroverpaloma]

All this love for NPCs and yet my short king silver fox old man duergar gets zero play

Smash me like I’m a limestone deposit you tiny brick shithouse

[naughtybg3confessions]

We talking micro blorbos?

Cause I desperately want to suck on Stonemason Kith's fat cock.

[deadstonemasonssociety]

Records from January 1565 show that stonemasons working at a quarry in Clontarf, Dublin, were provided with an allowance of 14 pints of ale per day by the proctor of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.

Documents from Dublin Castle showed that the household staff consumed 264,000 pints of beer in 1590, which averaged up to eight pints each per day - a similar amount to what was typically consumed in England in this period.