Concrete from Sassanian Dam, ostensibly c.600 A.D, Persia

PART OF:
Collection of samples of building materials used at the Building Research Station, Watford in the 1940s and '50s.
Made:
Middlesex

Concrete from Sassanian Dam, c.600 A.D.?, from Khalafabad, Persia

Details

Category:
Building Construction
Object Number:
1966-376 Pt21
type:
concrete sample
credit:
Ministry of Technology (Watford)

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