The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station, Armidale, New South Wales

by Graham Connah

This book is an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth-century farm buildings dating from Australia's rural pioneering period. Based on field recording during the 1980s, its historical value is now particularly significant because similar buildings in Australia have since often deteriorated or vanished completely. Construction techniques, the use of materials, mainly timber as slabs or weather boarding, and of galvanized corrugated iron, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407358804
• ISBN13: 9781407358802
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.7"