Cloverfields as of August 2020: An Extraordinary Find In The Eighteenth-Century Roof

Cloverfields as of August 2020: An Extraordinary Find In The Eighteenth-Century Roof

Learn about how the eighteenth-century roofers working at Cloverfields “swept the valley” and “combed the ridge” of the shingles they installed—and about how sometimes they did not, and instead, they used very thin shingles. These slender shingles and the way they were manipulated and installed constitute, according to historian Willie Graham, an “extraordinary find.”

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