Alcoblog Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 pathetic people on the forum thanks for your answers Minimo & tzijlstra thank you That's very nice of you to say so for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 pathetic people on the forum thanks for your answers Minimo & tzijlstra thank you Pathetic? Incapable of googling? https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=DqvkVYnmDpCx8wen8LmAAw&gws_rd=ssl#q=how+do+buildings+become+buried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=DqvkVYnmDpCx8wen8LmAAw&gws_rd=ssl#q=how+do+buildings+become+buried And all the litter that blows around these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*_ash_* Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 pathetic people on the forum thanks for your answers Minimo & tzijlstra thank you If you have a garden, just leave a paved section of it without tending it, and over about 2 years it will be grown over. Times that by 300 and it will be long buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 If you have a garden, just leave a paved section of it without tending it, and over about 2 years it will be grown over. Times that by 300 and it will be long buried. How many 600 year olds do you know with a garden? Very unhelpful answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimo Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) pathetic people on the forum thanks for your answers Minimo & tzijlstra thank you I injected a little sanity, but I also really enjoy the humour. If you ask a question on here you have to be prepared for the comics to put their twopennorth in, and take it in good part. They mean no harm. I echo your thanks to tzjlstra, who explained it clearly. Edited August 31, 2015 by Minimo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*_ash_* Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) How many 600 year olds do you know with a garden? Very unhelpful answer. It was a message in a bottle (or the net) for the future. I'm hoping they do this paving slab test; this thread doesn't get archived; his/her Great( x18 ) grandchildren read this in the future; and go looking for the paving slab The site might have changed names by then though, to OMGlikeSFgrunt.lol.eu or similar. Edited September 1, 2015 by *_ash_* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 A lot of it depends on the area, the 'deeper is older' phenomena only occurs where there was a soft underground. People didn't have roads back then and structures (houses, forts and so on) had a very short lifespan compared to the solid stone structures we have now. Over time a settlement would simply 'silt up' - mud from outside the place would be walked into it and deposit to the existing underground. Over a hundred years you could easily be talking about a foot of earth. In the Netherlands there is a different reason: Until the late medieval times areas were very swampy, heavy goods that were 'lost' in mud would sink down over time. That is probably also likely in places like East Anglia and Lincolnshire and several river estuaries in England. Not really - frost wedging tends to bring things that were buried upwards in the UK. Most of the stuff that structure gets buried in is just rubbish, dung, muck, waste dirt etc.. the valuables are buried for safekeeping as someone noted above. Not sure how different the Nederlands would be as you say it was a fair bit swampier and there was a lot of cases of inundation as well which will have made it rather different from the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Not really - frost wedging tends to bring things that were buried upwards in the UK. Most of the stuff that structure gets buried in is just rubbish, dung, muck, waste dirt etc.. the valuables are buried for safekeeping as someone noted above. Not sure how different the Nederlands would be as you say it was a fair bit swampier and there was a lot of cases of inundation as well which will have made it rather different from the UK. Not forgetting all the pumping that went on in the nether regions. As the Dutch evolved and developed legs at the time of the dinosaurs, 6,000 years ago, they left the ocean and crawled onto the muddy land. Shortly after, they invented windmills, with which they then removed water from the lowland into rivers and dykes, eventually into the sea. The upshot being that they flooded Doggerland, right up to Scarborough. On a recent visit to Saltburn, I noticed the Brits'd built a load of new massive bladed windmills just off the coast, presumably to pump all the unwanted water back into Holland again? Anyway, I digress. Due to pumping all the water out of the nether regions, the ground sank beneath ground level, which the Dutch had to fill in and level off with topsoil before anybody noticed. They dug up all the hills to do this, resulting in a perfectly flat country, ideal for cycling and growing daffodils. Obviously, this process of landscaping covered up all the old houses and suchlike in the hollows which is the reason why there's so much stuff to uncover in archaeological digs there nowadays. Occam's razor has just been sharpened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Well something happened to Occams razor yes. That made this morning a little brighter it must be said :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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