> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:29:35 -0500, "KYER, JEFFREY" <jeff.kyer_at_...>
> wrote:
>
> >An exceleent source material. I would point out that the snows are deep
> >in Sartar, probably deeper than in, say, England or continental europe.
>
> A sore point, as I sit snowbound in central Scotland, with 5' drifts
> outside, and the main Edinburgh-Glasgow motorway closed...
>
> >Smoke holes are probably going to be necessary.
>
> They would in turf roofs, but those cutaways do not look like they
> include smokeholes, which would lose a hell of a lot of heat anyway
> (most of the heat of a fire rises, after all, why let it out?).
In the longhouse drawings and rebuilds I've seen, the smoke comes out from triangular holes (like windows) at each end of the roof. The doors tend to be at the short ends, since you lose far less heat that way.
-Adept
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