Identifying and Classifying Masons' Marks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11903040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blake Tyson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-15 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vernacular Architecture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5477 • E-ISSN: 1749-6292 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/vea.1994.25.1.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2051323205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Since the first discussion of masons' marks, about 150 years ago, much has been written about them including, according to Salzman, 'some fanciful nonsense,'. Perhaps the most intractable problem has been to allocate names to particular marks. This article therefore indicates briefly how masons' marks were used, outlines several important discoveries and pitfalls in earlier studies and then, by reference to sources in the Cumbria Record Offices, sets out to classify marks by the quality of the documentary evidence and shows how that can best be achieved by working from documents to buildings rather than the reverse. It then sets out a proposed classification and, for each category, lists some details of each mason for whom a mark has been identified, including a few noted by other authors
Archaeology · Documentary evidence · Genealogy · Nonsense · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Archaeological Research and Protection · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2007 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |