What did a mason do?

Answer 1

In the middle ages, stonemasons built large buildings, like cathedrals and castles, out of quarry stone. Quarry stone, or "free stone," was used so that it could be cut into ashlars, which were square or rectangular cut stones, that had to be plumb, square and level. Every angle had to be cut at exactly ninety degrees.

Stonemasons, or freemasons, belonged to lodges instead of guilds. These lodges were self-governing. They were specifically forbidden to hire or admit brick masons, into their lodges. Brick masons built crude buildings out of brick. Brick was not cut from stone, but was made of mud, cast in molds and baked in ovens. Brick masons were also known as "rough masons" or "row masons." They were considered inferior to stone masons or freemasons. Some only had middle school educations. If they were literate, they wrote in sentence fragments and failed to capitalize their letters when it was appropriate.

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in the dark ages they made bricks and layed them

so they are bricklayers

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