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Obscure Architectural Term of the Day!

CLAPPER BRIDGE. A bridge made of large slabs of stone, some built up to make rough piers and other longer ones laid on top to make the roadway.

From the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition.

You know, I think I'm going to have to start working harder at obscurity. I would never have figured something like "clapper bridge" would have returned so many different pictures on Google. And they all look very picturesque, as well.

Oh well, as they say, "clap on, clap off."

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 21, 2005 03:46 PM