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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2010

Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual architectural experiment is halfway to completion, as a team of masons replicates in painstaking detail the construction of an entire medieval castle.

The ­chateau de Guedelon was started in 1998, after local landowner Michel Guyot wondered if it would be possible to build a castle from scratch using only contemporary tools and materials.

Today the walls are rising gradually from the red Burgundy clay, as guide Sarah Preston explained to Hugh Schofield.

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  • Excellent, we need more people like this.

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  • What is the smelted iron ore called? "Blume?"

  • Did she say a Medieval "ribbed" vault? And is that in/under/over the guards' room, or what? It sounds like they're the same room; the guard room IS the "ribbed" vault, correct? I'm trying to get a clear picture in my head...

  • I am amazed, I hope there government think this is important enough to help alittle bit. With funding or , workpower or , something. I realy love people with such a passion for something.

  • Few years? that will take 10 years or more with only a few masons...

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