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      miraflores, Sep 21, 2011
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      Nice one Mira.

      Like the idea of preserving the place underneath the new building, hope that doesn't just mean burying it in concrete though.
       
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      I find it amazing that such things have remained hidden underground in such a heavily built over city.
       
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      The archeologists i've worked with say that once you get below about 1000 years in London there is a six foot layer of mud representing the 600 year "Dark Ages" where nothing happened after the Romans left.

      Below that you find the Roman City.

      Seen the same in Turkey, the City was about 15 feet deep & the excavation stopped abruptly so you could see the later stuff quite clearly.
       
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      It is fascinating how the layers build up over the centuries. In Canterbury the Roman Museum goes underneath the existing houses and you can see the old Roman road and mosiacs in their original positions down there. Same with the Jorvic centre in York, the viking house foundations are several feet beneath the current street level. I think the best example is Bath, again the Roman street level must be 15 to 20 feet below the existing one.


      Why isn't Stonehenge covered over? Is it only in towns where the people chuck out their rubbish that cause the street levels to rise?
       
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      I always wondered why in towns and cities the historical levels build up to such a huge extent . They must have never cleared the site and just built on top of the old buildings. We have JCBs these days and big dump trucks , so I presume city levels will not be rising now.
       
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