Corbelled Arch Drawing

Corbel

The Corbelled arch is heavily used in the buildings at Uxmal. It is constructed in the manner shown in the drawing above. Each successive higher layer of stones extends further into the opening until the two sides approach closely enough for them to be capped by a single stone.


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