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One of the big sources of new runestone discoveries in Sweden is "load bearing part of someone's basement" (and that similarly some amount of the Acropolis turn
by eichin 3y ago
One of the big sources of new runestone discoveries in Sweden is "load bearing part of someone's basement" (and that similarly some amount of the Acropolis turns up as having been used as construction material.)
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- gen220 3y agoThis is human tradition, especially urban tradition. To raise the elevation of the city, and reuse the prior construction as the foundation and basement of the next. The old town in Naples has a section that is contoured in a half-circle arc to align with a Roman amphitheater that now serves as its foundation. Reduce reuse recycle used to be taken much more seriously. :)
- regularfry 3y agoThe Basilica Cistern in Istanbul is a great example too. The cistern itself is Roman, but they used bits of even older buildings to build it.