Able to date the masonry of a cathedral, an abbey, a parish church or a castle or a medieval house will always be a major concern of the archaeologist of the frame. There are well known methods such as analysis of construction accounts (if they exist), architectural and stylistic experiments (if sufficiently reliable), dendrochronology (if wood is contemporary masonry), but nothing is obviously a relative or absolute chronology delivered by the same stones and especially size techniques.
This work, which covers Belgium, northern and central France and Burgundy, presents the evolution size techniques for various types of stones between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This analysis is based on 370 buildings in which each element is listed chronologically distinctive in nine databases, which are drawn from the summary tables, working tools specifically designed for the archaeologist and essential to teach him to propose to her dating masonry study.
Reference work, it is the only in its field that combines the appearance of a manual with working as an innovative scientific work.
The study of the geographic distribution of pruning techniques not only allowed to sketch the evolution of pruning techniques throughout the study area, but also to define areas of innovation, migration, interactions, transfers technology, all solidly backed by an unusually high number of buildings studied, compared to other published research.
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