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NEW BUILD CONSERVATION & REPAIR RESEARCH & TRAINING MONUMENTS |
Scotland’s ruins and monuments often call for a specialist approach that is sensitive to the appearance of monuments in the landscape, as well as the local ecology. Little and Davie have led the recent development of ‘soft capping’ in Scotland. Soft capping techniques use carefully selected soils and plants to create a stable micro-environment for exposed masonry, buffering it against rain, frost and wind. Working with these materials over ten years, we have developed unique expertise on the practical factors that are key to making this environmentally-friendly type of repair successful. We are partners in Historic Scotland’s current Soft Topping research project and contractors on the experimental capping of Smailholm Tower, a HS property in care. The soft capping technique, allied with clay and lime mortar repairs, are highly applicable to sensitive stabilisation of ground and low level archaeology and we welcome enquiries about this type of project. 1. Smailholm Tower, Borders 2. Soft capping, Fife 3. Turf repairs, Aberdeenshire 4. St Ninian’s Chapel, Bute |
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LITTLE AND DAVIE CONSTRUCTION, STONE, EARTH AND LIME BUILDERS |
