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

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Category:: Building Construction

Object Number:: 1966-376 Pt21

type:: concrete sample

credit:: Ministry of Technology (Watford)

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

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