Name: 保護在行動雷庫爾弗塔和羅馬城堡 (Conservation in Action: Reculver Towers and Roman Fort)
Uploaded: 2025-10-25T18:45:49.000Z
Duration: 4 min 33 s

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It's a national significance because it represents continuity through a great amount of time.

它具有國家級意義，因為它代表了跨越漫長時間的延續性。

So its origins lie in the late second century, but

所以它的起源可以追溯到二世紀末，但

within it a church was established here in the mid 7th century.

在此之中，一座教堂在七世紀中期建立於此。

The Saxons Minster and that Saxon minster was the parish church of a community.

撒克遜教堂，而那座撒克遜教堂曾是一個社群的教區教堂。

And in fact that community survived in this location until the early 19th century when coastal change and heavy erosion meant the site was no longer tenable.

事實上，這個社群一直存續在這個地方直到十九世紀初，當時海岸變遷和嚴重侵蝕意味著這個地點已不再可行。

The church was partially ruined, but the towers were kept as a navigational aid.

教堂部分毀壞，但塔樓被保留下來作為導航輔助。

We started work on site back in May and we're due to finish in November.

我們從五月開始進行現場工作，預計十一月完工。

All the works that been very carefully considered.

所有工程都經過非常審慎的考量。

We're very fortunate to have an excellent team of people all working together collaboratively.

我們很幸運有一支優秀的團隊，大家齊心協力合作。

We have a team of five number masons, four carpentry and lead work specialists, three window specialists and two man safe contractors.

我們有五位石匠、四位木工和鉛工專家、三位窗戶專家，以及兩位安全承包商。

We've been undertaking a multi phase project here at Recolva, starting with the walls of the Roman fort and then we moved inside the fort to deal with the church.

我們在這裡的 Recolva 進行了一個多階段項目，首先是羅馬要塞的牆壁，然後我們進入要塞內部處理教堂。

And we started with the most urgent areas of historic fabric.

我們從最急需修復的歷史結構區域開始。

We designed a scaffold plan and gave very careful consideration to that to make sure the scaffolding was robust, that could withstand the wind speeds that we get here.

我們設計了一個鷹架計劃，並對其進行了非常仔細的考慮，以確保鷹架堅固，能夠承受這裡的風速。

The location of the site means that it's exposed to really extreme weather conditions and that's led to a lot of erosion on the motor faces.

這個地點的位置意味著它會受到非常極端的氣候條件影響，這導致牆面嚴重侵蝕。

And it's really kind of getting to the point now where there's kind of a big kind of amount of repairs that need to be carried out again.

現在確實到了需要再次進行大量修繕的程度了。

And certainly one of the things that English Heritage I know are looking at is kind of dealing with the coastal erosion, with climate change moving along and as well it's something that needs to be considered.

我確定 English Heritage 正在關注的一個重點是處理海岸侵蝕的問題，隨著氣候變遷的發展，這也是需要考慮的。

The process of the thicken of the walls is where the weather just pounds and the rain just makes the walls really thin.

牆壁變薄的過程，是因為天氣不斷拍打，雨水讓牆壁變得非常薄。

So in some parts you can even see daylight through them.

在某些地方，你甚至可以看到光線從中透進來。

So we're trying to thicken them out with flint, pebbles, ragstone.

所以我們正試圖用燧石、鵝卵石、砂岩來加厚它們。

So basically you find a very deep area, you hand pick a pebble so you apply the mortar and then you lay it in the mortars and then basically with the same mortar point around it.

所以基本上，你找到一個很深的區域，然後你親手挑選一顆鵝卵石，接著塗上砂漿，然後將它放在砂漿裡，之後再用同樣的砂漿在周圍點綴。

There's a variety of different stones that were originally in the building, so some Roman brick as well, from the original Roman forbes.

建築物裡有各種不同的石頭，有些是來自最初的羅馬要塞的羅馬磚。

As part of the exercise, we have tried to match the stones to the original materials wherever it's possible.

作為這項工作的一部分，我們盡可能地試圖將石頭與原始材料相匹配。

Looking at the towers themselves, a lot of the masonry you can see was salvaged from the original Roman building.

看看這些塔樓本身，你可以看到很多砂漿是從原始的羅馬建築中回收利用的。

A lot of the medieval buildings that are near the coast, the mortars are formed with aggregate taken from the beaches, so crushed shell, crushed oyster shell, cockle shell.

許多靠近海岸的中世紀建築，其砂漿是由海灘上的骨料製成的，像是碎貝殼、碎牡蠣殼、鳥蛤殼。

So replicating the mix closely is very important.

所以盡可能準確地複製砂漿混合物非常重要。

The process is to point it, let it sit a bit, let a crust go on it, brush, brush the crust off and it brings all the aggregates out and it looks authentic.

這個過程是先填縫，讓它靜置一下，形成一層硬殼，然後刷掉硬殼，這樣所有的骨料都會顯露出來，看起來就很真實。

In the roof works, we came across additional rot that we hadn't expected to kind of find in the initial assessment.

在屋頂工程中，我們發現了額外的腐爛，這是在初步評估時沒有預料到的。

So that's meant removing the old roof structure and replacing with a new timber deck that's gone in, but

所以這意味著要拆除舊的屋頂結構，換上新的木結構樓板，

Any rain that will run off, drip down and drip free of the facade, which then protects the stonework and all the restoration work they're doing today.

任何雨水都會流下來，滴到立面之外，這樣就可以保護石工和他們今天正在進行的所有修復工作。

I started roofing when I was 13 years old with my dad, third generation.

我從 13 歲開始跟我爸爸一起做屋頂，我們是第三代。

My grandfather owned the company and my father owned the company.

我的祖父擁有這家公司，我父親也擁有這家公司。

Now I own the company with my two brothers.

現在我和我的兩個兄弟一起經營這家公司。

So we found that house sparrows were nesting in small holes across the masonry, and

所以我們發現麻雀在牆面的小洞裡築巢，

we've erected a number of artificial nest boxes on site, which they're currently using, I'm pleased to say.

我們在現場設置了幾個人工鳥巢箱，很高興牠們現在正在使用。

Recolva Towers have been a really very dramatic landscape feature on this part of the North Ken coast since the early 13th century.

從 13 世紀初開始，Recolva Towers 一直是北肯海岸這片區域非常引人注目的景觀特色。

And as a consequence of the work we're carrying out at the moment, we're confident that they will remain a landscape feature for many generations to come.

而且由於我們目前正在進行的工作，我們有信心它們將在未來許多世代繼續成為景觀特色。