giovedì 16 luglio 2015

Lime-kiln (about 1700)

The lime-kiln of Piedilago (Premia) The artisanal production of lime was done "cooking" at high temperatures fragments of limestone.
Furnace has a drywall circular thickness of 2.2 meters. The ordered accumulation in the interior of the limestone blocks allow to obtain a chamber below which constituted the feeding area of ​​the fire. 
The room calcining an inside height of 3.8 meters and an average diameter of 3 meters and could be loaded with about 20 cubic meters of limestone. The rock fragments came from the steep cliffs above Piedilago and were transported to the furnace with a cableway.

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