The Development of the Cruck Framework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5083210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Walton (0000-0003-3804-444X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1948 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 88 |
| Pages | 179-189 |
| Publication date | 1948-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00019797 |
| OpenAlex | W2485254516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The use of pairs of straight or curved timbcrs to support the ridge-pole of a primitive Td welling affords one of the most fundamental of all house types. In England, Scotland and Wales, it developed into the complex cruck framework which, although it has many close analogies in north-western Europe, is a unique feature of peasant architecture, Detailed studies of the cruck buildings of northern England have been made by Addy (1), Innocent (2) and, more recently, by the writer of the present paper (3)) whilst Sigurd Erixon has published an excellent comparative study of analagous types (4). The object of this paper is primarily to trace the evolutionary stages through which the cruck building and its allied forms passed
Archaeology · Feature (linguistics) · Genealogy · Geography · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Peasant · Perspective (graphical) · Ridge · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Geology · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 2012 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |