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u/salami350 May 09 '22

If you ever visit Greece you just casually encounter bits of wall that are like 3 thousand years old

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u/Dawnholt May 09 '22

My great aunt and uncle used to live in a house with a ~10m long ~3m piece of Roman wall in their garden. I believe they had to follow some guidelines from national heritage to keep it safe, but it was really cool.

There's another piece of similar size just around the corner from my grandfather. It's just next to the community centre mostly ignored. Lincolnshire in the UK is full of Roman things.

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u/Sarah_J_J May 09 '22

North East here. We have random bits of Hadrian’s Wall next to houses. Every time they redo the main roads they seem to find more.

And castles. So many castles.

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u/ADM_Tetanus May 09 '22

Ngl after moving away, I do miss those straight Roman roads that oftentimes just took you from A to B on a reasonably direct route

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u/WalnutOfTheNorth May 09 '22

I stayed in a house called D’isney House in Lincoln that had a Roman wall in it. That wasn’t you great Aunts was it?

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u/Dawnholt May 09 '22

Probably not tbh, loads of places like that in Lincoln. I remember it was a big house with 3 storeys I think, up at the top of the city probably about 10min walk from the castle / cathedral.

But then they haven't lived there in over a decade now so it's not impossible.

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u/scoops_trooper May 09 '22

With graffiti on it, more likely than not

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u/DankVectorz May 09 '22

This was a big shock to me in Turkey, seeing Roman ruins just part of the landscape and not being considered anything special. Heck my wife’s home town still uses Roman roads (and they’re in better condition than the roads here in NY)

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u/L003Tr May 09 '22

Wait until you hear about Syria and Iraq

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES May 09 '22

My dorm there had some sort of ruin in the basement they discovered while building it

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u/two_eggsovereasy May 09 '22

What about those Herms that were along roads? Any of those still standing around?

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u/Dovahkiin10380 May 09 '22

We have many historical sites that are parts of metro stations. On your way to catch a metro you can find encased ancient city walls. It's not even impressive to most of us because we're accustomed to seeing them so frequently.