Can Someone enlighten me as to the nature of this anchor?
Can Someone enlighten me as to the nature of this anchor?
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I saw these anchors all over Italy on old (prob medieval) buildings - they look like some kind of wall anchor? I haven't been able to successfully search what they were really used for.. so any info would be appreciated! (on the photo they are the bars on the building facade that look like the top of a pick)





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JMW
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Many buildings of that period have walls with a relatively thin stone inner and outer wall, with rubble fill in between.
I'd guess that the anchors tie the inner and outer walls together.
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see Figure 12 in this: http
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Done a lot of retrofitting of older brick structures and it is essential to tie the floor structure to the brick with horizontal straps with external metal rosette bearing plates. The system works as a unit. If you lose either one, the building will fail.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Over time things move and this is an effective way to hold them together.
I'm think that in some industrial buildings they were not added afterwards but included in the original construction, but I could be wrong here.
JMW
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common on older single skin buildings
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First story brick walls are three wythes thick (with some areas eroded by water over the years) and the 2nd story with just two wythes.
People don't want the building to be demolished but there doesn't seem to be the money to shore the building until funds can somehow be obtained to shore and restore the building.