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counter point, wouldn't you have assumed that scans/surveys had been done? This is a famous church after all!

• jjulius 5y ago
  Forgive my ignorance - genuinely curious if there might be a different way of thinking about this. 10-15cm underneath the floor seems so shallow that one would assume it would be picked up with such a scan. With that context, why shouldn't we assume a scan hadn't been performed?
  • jjnoakes 5y ago
    I think the idea was that the people who would consider scanning recently might assume that someone scanned previously, based on the popularity of the site, and decide against it based on that. Though I'd think you'd be able to verify an assumption like that.
    • jjulius 5y ago
      Ah, of course - makes sense. Totally obvious in hindsight. Thank you!
    • lumost 5y ago
      It's pretty tough to verify such things. We don't make reliable records of the absence of something, and while someone at the church would probably know where the records of such a thing occurring were - it would take time to find that person. Not to mention its no ones job to verify assumptions on what things have/have not been done. Which is a good reminder that many things we don't know about are because no one has ever bothered to try, or failing that, they haven't tried hard enough.