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Sarcophagus carved from a single block of red sandstone, excavated from a cave tomb at Lushan, Sichuan province. Height 580 mm. Wenwu, 1987, 10.

Chinese tomb models showing steddles, Excavated at Xiangguo-si Eastern Han, AD 25-220. Temple, Chongqing, Sichuan. Wenwu Courtesy Prof Qinghua Guo Cankao Ziliao (1955), 3, p 40. Above: Borobudur, 9th century. Below:detail of a Badui house in

Sasak barn, or lombok.

The steddle, or jelepreng in Images from Davison & Waterson, in G Tjahjono, Indonesian Heritage: Architecture (Singapore 1998, pp 10, 40 Left: Dagada house. Right: Dagada .

Below right: Atoni lopo, or communal Meeting house, with granary loft.

The steddle in West Timor Images from Fox, in G Tjahjono, Indonesian Heritage: Architrecture (Singapore 1998, pp 44-45 Corn steddle at Paterson, New South Wales photos, Miles Lewis 1990 ‘Dutch barn’, from Thomas Lightoler, Gentleman and Farmer's Architect, 1762

cast iron stand for stacks, and modular rick stand by Cottam & Hallen, London: both from J C Loudon, An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture (London 1846 [1833]), pp 405-6. A mouseproof store on Springall’s system, ‘Mount Hesse’, Victoria

right top: a Springall steddle, ‘Mount Hesse’

Right bottom: the Springall substructure of a mouseproof store at ‘Ripple Vale’ reconstruction plan and interior of building B, Ezinge, Netherlands, 3rd – 4th century BC.

Lorna Price, The Plan of St Gall in Brief (Berkeley [California] 1982), pp 80, 82. reconstruction of catle barn, Ezinge, Netherlands, 2nd century BC.

Lorna Price, The Plan of St Gall in Brief (Berkeley [California] 1982), p 81. reconstructed Bronze age house, Hjerl Hede, Denmark: Gorm Benzon, Gammelt Danske Bindingsværk(Copenhagen 1984), p 145.

'winter walls' of sod, used in Denmark into the nineteenth century: Gorm Benzon, Bindingsværk i Mellemjylland (no place [?Copenhagen] 1985), p 9. Some Netherlands barn types c 1550-1700

R C Hekker, Historische Boerderijtypen / Historical Types of (Arnhem 1991), no page distribution of building types c 1550 the threshing nave type versus the compartmented house type (hatched)

R C Hekker, Historische Boerderijtypen / Historical Types of Barns (Arnhem 1991), no page Mooney’s barn,Hahndorf, South Australia Gordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 193 Paech family’s barn at Paechtown, South Australia Gordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 200 Friederichstadt barn, South Australia Gordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 247 corner post beam and strutting details, Friederichstadt barn Gordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II,p 211 the thatched shed

the Wallace Osadchuk cattle barn, USA Christopher Martin, 'Skeleton of Settlement', in Thomas Carter & B L Herman, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III (Columbia [Missouri] 1989), p 95.

shed on the Terry Price property Polkemmet Road, Quantong North, Victoria exterior & interior photos, Miles Lewis 1985.

below right: detail of ridge bearing from a Hungarian-type shed at Hambuliakavo, South Slovakia Vaclac Mencl, Lidova Architektura v Ceskoslovensku (Prague 1980), p 124. the first pattern book barn design, 1781

William Pain, The Carpenter's Pocket Directory; containing the Best Methods of Framing Timber Buildings ... with the Plan and Sections of a Barn (London 1781), plates i & ii. 'Small English Barn‘ 1797 from Robert Beatson, 'On Farm Buildings in General', in Board of Agriculture [London], Communications (London 1804 [1797]), pl v

Leumeah Barn, Campbellfield NSW Illegally stolen from Gary Vines’s paper 'Barn at Lord Muncaster's in Cumberland‘ 'Design for a Barn & Small Thrashing Mill' from Beatson, 'On Farm Buildings in General', pls viii, ix. timber barn, 1807 Robert Lugar, The Country Gentleman's Architect (London 1807), plate 20 enclosed and partly enclosed farmyards in Australia

The walled farmyard at 'Old Wesleydale', Chudleigh, 'Chatsworth', Victoria, men's quarters (left) Tasmania, with the barn at the centre, 1830s. and stables &c (right) Left, the approach; right, the wall from inside. forming two sides of a potential giant courtyard, Photos, Miles Lewis 1973 1850s onwards. Photos, Miles Lewis 1990 Design for a Farm-Steading No 1. John Starforth, The Architecture of the Farm (Edinburgh 1853), plates xlv, xlvii. Barn from the Miller Manufacturing Co., USA Miller's "Ready-Built" Buildings (Saint Louis [Missouri] 1918), pp 65-9 ‘Ventilated Granary (top left) and various corn cribs

Jonathan Periam [adapted by R W E McIvor], The Pictorial Home and Farm Manual (Sydney 1885), pp 423-5 Single and double corn cribs by the Miller company, and the Miller erection system. Miller's "Ready-Built" Buildings (Saint Louis [Missouri] 1918), pp 78, 79, 80. The Herbert homestead, Yarra Glen [demolished], house, and outbuildings of indeterminate use: general view and detail of slab wall. Photos Miles Lewis 1979 Frederick Harrison’s ideal farmstead

Building & Engineering Journal, 3 August 1889, np. .

G A Dean’s farmstead for the Prince Consort at 'Home Park', Windsor

G A Dean, Selected Designs for Country Residences (London 1867 pl 21. The large hay barn, 'Tocal', NSW, by Edmund Blacket c 1850: view and detail of knee brace. Photos, Miles Lewis 1990. 'The Mains', Upper Murray, farm buildings of the late 1850s, with a detail of the eaves joist construction in the barn on the left.

photos, Miles Lewis l985. general framing for a heavy barn W A Radford, Framing: a Practical Manual (Chicago 1909), p 240 plank-frame construction & wind-bracing for plank-frame construction W A Radford, Framing: a Practical Manual (Chicago 1909), pp 254-5 Bark roofing and sod roofing ‘Stapelgrove’, Flynn, Gippsland, 1770s; Thomas’s farm, Campbell’s Forest Photos Miles Lewis & Gary Gilmour Iron barn at Hastings, Victoria, recycled from Kirk's Bazaar in Bourke Street. Photos, Miles Lewis Francis Morton's 'Patent Iron Thatch substitute for hay and corn ricks'. J L Steinhardt [ed], The Illustrated Guide to the Manufacturers, Engineers, and Merchants of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London 1869), p 145. The Victorian Barn traditions and forms

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