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Carter No.: 239

Handlist description: Fourth (innermost) shrine

Card/Transcription No.: 239-16


Re doors

The doors are of the simplest kind. Two vertical boards are clamped with a hanging and meeting style, a top and bottom rail. These members are tenoned together and the boards joined up with rebated glued joints strengthened at intervals by cross-tongues. They are hung on top & bottom pivots, which are inserted into corresponding socket holes sunk into the lintel and sill. The pivots are merely the horns (projecting ends) of the hanging style rounded off to suitable pivot-shape. The butt edges of the doors are rounded so as to enable them to swing freely, and the meeting styles are rebated to prevent observation through the joint.

Card no. 239-16 relating to Carter no. 239
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