Lightening rod masonry conduit (Saint-Paul, Powder magazine, 2018)

Lightening rod masonry conduit (Saint-Paul, Powder magazine, 2018)
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Test Pit 3, outside the perimeter wall, revealed two of the four sections of the lightening rod. The brick conduit was 16 metres long. The conductor, a two-centimetre square-section iron bar runs along the centre.

© Thierry Cornec, Inrap

© Thierry Cornec, Inrap

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