telleira
English translation: Galician tile kiln
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|  Selected response from: Helena Chavarria Spain Local time: 02:49 | ||||
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| 3 | Galician tile kiln |
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leave it in Galician Explanation: The text goes on to explain what it means. |
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Galician tile kiln Explanation: This might suit your purpose. En la orilla del mar en la parroquia de Castrelo, en Cambados, en frente del Illote Beiro y de la Illa da Toxa, existen os restos medio recuperados de lo que fueron unos antiguos hornos artesanales para la producción de ladrillo y teja. En Galicia de se le conocen como “Telleiras” (de tella=teja) y en ellos se cocía la arcilla que proporciona esta costa y que fue depositada por los ríos y regatos durante siglos y que da el característico color a toda esta costa. La cocción de las tejas duraba siete días en los que el “telleiro” cuidaba que la temperatura del fuego fuera la adecuada para una buena cocción. https://www.galiciamaxica.eu/galicia/pontevedra/telleiras/ https://books.google.es/books?id=k7SUh_3lcP4C&pg=PA114&lpg=P... BUILDING A MEDIEVAL TILE KILN Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn Cheshire (http://www.nortonpriory.org/ ) was excavated as a community archaeology programme through the 1970’s and 1980’s. Excavations uncovered the life of a rich and influential Augustinian Priory active from the 12th Century to 1536 and also its later incarnations as a Tudor and then Georgian house. The data recovered was enormous and Norton Priory has an extensive skeletal, pottery and tile collection which is important internationally. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Priory#Excavations_and_m... In the 1980’s the excavation team in conjunction with Liverpool University built a replica tile kiln, similar to one recovered on the site, and fired it over several summers, producing a range of floor tiles. I wanted to reconstruct this experiment to look at some of the issues that had been raised by these earlier experiments, such a kiln design and firing techniques. We were assisted by Mr John Hudson, an experimental potter who expertise was essential for the project (http://www.hudsonclaypotter.co.uk/ ) and also by interested ceramic students from UCLan. https://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/explore/projects/building_m... It is suspected that some large buildings, where a stone bench runs along the wall and in which are not remains of room, could have been room enclosures. It has also ceramic and pottery kilns, usually next to the exits or outside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castros_(Spain) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-10-07 22:21:30 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Enjoying a pleasant ride, you’ll cross the reservoir over the Sanxez Bridge. At this point, you can continue the route or follow the off-route detour signs outside to the Médulas de Caldesiños. These ancient Roman farms led to the existence of several “telleiras” – old kilns where they fired the tiles made of clay extracted from the Médulas, whose remains are still appreciable today. http://www.turismo.gal/que-facer/centros-btt/centro-btt-port... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 hrs (2018-10-08 08:31:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I've provided a translation of 'telleira'. If I were you, I would write 'telleira' followed by (tile kiln). In cases like this, I'm in favour of using original names but whenever possible I give a literal translation in brackets. I always try to imagine I'm in a place with people who don't speak Spanish and I ask myself what I would say to them. That's why I never translate restuarant menus - it's better to use the original name of dishes but people want to know what they're eating! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 hrs (2018-10-08 09:35:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I have another comment to make. If you didn't translate the term, readers would have no idea what they were reading about until they had finished reading whole sentence. Nowadays we expect instant information! In traditional architecture, telleiras are... In traditional architecture, telleiras (tile kilns) are... |
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