17th c. brick hearth and foundation

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Brick architecture from a c.1670-1690s building on a private town lot at Charles Towne settlement. This model shows the base of a brick hearth & an earlier segment of intact brick foundation.

portable X-ray Flourescence, conducted by Dr. Carolyn Dillian at Coastal Carolina University, found that the bricks from the hearth & foundation segments were made from a different clay mixture helping show that they were not built at the same time & the hearth was likely a later improvement to the building. Studies like this help us better understand the colonists used & renovated the buildings through time.

To learn more about the bricks at Charles Towne watch:

38CH1, Structure 2

Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site

Charleston, SC

South Carolina Parks, Recreation, and Tourism

model created by jchaplin, 2019

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