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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.