8 March

I’ve wondered how these sorts of things survive for thousands of years, old Roman houses obviously just left after they fell into ruins, and soil gradually building up over them. I think it’s because there was no real earthmoving equipment then to do demolitions, today it’s a very quick job to completely remove all trace of a building. Back then it would take a huge amount of manual work, much of the time people would have demolished walls and just left the rest.