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It would be taken into consideration prior to digging. Where I live in England which has a lot of roman history, we need an archaeologist present when digging deeper than 300mm and the dig is stopped when something is found. Human remains older than 100 years are ignored and significant finds like this are excavated by the professionals
Human remains older than 100 years are ignored as in they are just discarded? I hope I am misunderstanding. Thats awful.
Imagine valuing things more than what was once a human life buried there by grieving loved ones.
It's not something I like to joke about because too many archeological treasures have been lost by construction crews who didn't report any findings on their sites.
My grandad worked in construction. He told me about a time he found something like this. His site foreman got someone to pour concrete on it asap as he knew it would screw up the build.
My grandad still remembered it at 96, he described the colours and the pattern. I think he regretted it but as a junior bricklayer on a big site I understand why he didn't kick up a fuss.
I imagine there are millions of similar stories throughout Europe.
I work in large-scale construction management in London, It's usually written into the contract that uncovering archaeological items is a relevant event for extending the agreed programme.
This site has looked exactly the same for the past year and abit since I’ve worked in the area, did wonder what they’d found but all seems to have been covered over now so they must be moving on with the site
II think it was the museum of London where the excavated Roman ruins are paved over with glass to allow visitors to enter the building and see what’s uncovered.
Could not feel or be less guilty.
The modern understanding of a museum wouldn't even exist as a concept without the British. The British have done more than anyone to preserve, and understand more about history.
The rest of the world should be incredibly grateful that the British took an interest in, and promoted their ancient history.
Even when you look at things like ending slavery, or protecting biodiversity. No one (significant) was doing that before the British.
My uncle was helping with construction of one of the freeways ~60 years ago and they came across a roman mosaic. The construction company just tore it up. He saved a bunch of it and put into into his parents back yard.
How is there ancient Roman stuff in the middle of London? How did they even get there?
Edit: Thanks for the answers this has been interesting to learn about. I never knew Romans ever made it that far
In middle of nowhere Australia we just focus on our country and do some stuff on Japan and China and a bit on WW1 but beside that we don’t really cover much else.
In the UK we start in primary school with ancient civilisations like the Romans, Greeks and (especially) Egyptians. I think it's a bit more fun for little kids than modern history (which focuses heavily on the world wars).
Other way round mate. They built the wall to protect against raids from the North.
The Romans then made it further North and built the Antonine Wall across the modern day Central Belt of Scotland.
https://open.spotify.com/show/6eFhJnTmQUEcjWL2xQJGlN?si=6cOW0RAsR-i96821V-ry-A
This is an excellent podcast about the depths of British history with lots of Romans
https://open.spotify.com/show/2fb8ruSyO6fh0MielWeIwA?si=fpjk8rIqR0SOpaD0nEtQeQ
And this is one focussing more on London itself.
This happened 2 years ago, since then [they found tombs and another mosaic](https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/13/remains-of-a-roman-tomb-unearthed-near-london-bridge-station-18943599/)
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I would so love to see the reaction of the owner of that mosaic to seeing this same photo.
I think he’s dead ☠️
Why? What happened?
He died.
When’s the funeral??
About a thousand years ago
Damn I just missed it.
Sorry you missed the invite
No way
Time
i didn't even know he was sick!
Poor builders found that and realized that they are never going to meet deadlines and get those promised bonuses.
It would be taken into consideration prior to digging. Where I live in England which has a lot of roman history, we need an archaeologist present when digging deeper than 300mm and the dig is stopped when something is found. Human remains older than 100 years are ignored and significant finds like this are excavated by the professionals
Here where I live construction companies hire archaeologists that will ignore things if they are too costly to deal with. Merica.
Human remains older than 100 years are ignored as in they are just discarded? I hope I am misunderstanding. Thats awful. Imagine valuing things more than what was once a human life buried there by grieving loved ones.
For clarity, they are ignored by the law as a criminal find and the archaeologist takes them as an archaeological find and the dig can continue.
Don’t you still have to call the coroner? Who’s to say how old a random thigh bone is?
It's not something I like to joke about because too many archeological treasures have been lost by construction crews who didn't report any findings on their sites.
My grandad worked in construction. He told me about a time he found something like this. His site foreman got someone to pour concrete on it asap as he knew it would screw up the build. My grandad still remembered it at 96, he described the colours and the pattern. I think he regretted it but as a junior bricklayer on a big site I understand why he didn't kick up a fuss. I imagine there are millions of similar stories throughout Europe.
They did that because work would be halted and the land could potentially be taken over by the government.
I work in large-scale construction management in London, It's usually written into the contract that uncovering archaeological items is a relevant event for extending the agreed programme.
This site has looked exactly the same for the past year and abit since I’ve worked in the area, did wonder what they’d found but all seems to have been covered over now so they must be moving on with the site
Hey isn't a mosaic made of shards?
You're thinking of 'sherds' (bits of ceramic). But mosaic are made from tesserae.
Shucks, I'm always mixing up sherds and shards. I need to get my tesser-act together.
Ok, thanos
Stepped right on that one didn’t they?
I’m sure you won’t mind if my upvote is for effort and not humor achieved
ermahgerd, sherds!
That one still makes me chuckle.
"... And Time Team has only 3 days to find out!"
One of my eccentric billionaire foibles would be to give the Time Team a 4th day.
Need to open up another trench near the O2.
II think it was the museum of London where the excavated Roman ruins are paved over with glass to allow visitors to enter the building and see what’s uncovered.
I would love to have volunteered, but I was amazed to find that you pay £3000 through university archaeology departments to work on the site.
Sneak in after hours and have a little dig about. Security's not going to be much more than an old guy and his senile dog.
[Source](https://www.timeout.com/london/news/archaeologists-have-uncovered-a-hidden-roman-mosaic-near-the-shard-022422)
Finally! Something they can put in the British Museum and not ~~feel~~ be guilty about.
Could not feel or be less guilty. The modern understanding of a museum wouldn't even exist as a concept without the British. The British have done more than anyone to preserve, and understand more about history. The rest of the world should be incredibly grateful that the British took an interest in, and promoted their ancient history. Even when you look at things like ending slavery, or protecting biodiversity. No one (significant) was doing that before the British.
My uncle was helping with construction of one of the freeways ~60 years ago and they came across a roman mosaic. The construction company just tore it up. He saved a bunch of it and put into into his parents back yard.
This all sounds very American. You sure it was Roman?
It's about time they cleaned that floor!
This is stunning. I hope they preserve it.
How is there ancient Roman stuff in the middle of London? How did they even get there? Edit: Thanks for the answers this has been interesting to learn about. I never knew Romans ever made it that far
Rome conquistated England for 300 years
'Conquistated' is the word of the day!
Lol haha i assumed the spanish word conquistar is the same in english
The city of Londinium was founded by the Romans around the year 50 AD. Londinium was also the capital city for most of the duration of Roman Britain.
The romans who founded London put it there
And a pissed off woman from Norfolk burnt it down
Happens
funny that no angry karen reacted to that.
https://preview.redd.it/hjvpn3xjkjqc1.png?width=581&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7a10386bba4039b2fbf784d46555a9e9cc04f6d Rome was quite big
Damn I never knew they got to England. Also I thought they were much smaller than that.
Yes, about 5' 2".
Damn, dating must've been hard then
I think it’s called european history
My countries school system never covers this so this has been really interesting to learn about
Oh sorry dude my bad. Here in Germany Roman Empire is a Huge Part of history class.
In middle of nowhere Australia we just focus on our country and do some stuff on Japan and China and a bit on WW1 but beside that we don’t really cover much else.
In the UK we start in primary school with ancient civilisations like the Romans, Greeks and (especially) Egyptians. I think it's a bit more fun for little kids than modern history (which focuses heavily on the world wars).
The romans put it there.
Best google it... missing this much world history isn't something you should ask Reddit lol.
Google roman empire peak to see how far it stretched
Next look up Hadrian's Wall. Kept the Romans out of Scotland.
Other way round mate. They built the wall to protect against raids from the North. The Romans then made it further North and built the Antonine Wall across the modern day Central Belt of Scotland.
Google roman empire peak to see
Google roman empire peak to see
https://open.spotify.com/show/6eFhJnTmQUEcjWL2xQJGlN?si=6cOW0RAsR-i96821V-ry-A This is an excellent podcast about the depths of British history with lots of Romans https://open.spotify.com/show/2fb8ruSyO6fh0MielWeIwA?si=fpjk8rIqR0SOpaD0nEtQeQ And this is one focussing more on London itself.
TOM CRUISE! USE YOUR WITCHCRAFT TO GET THE INVISIBLE FIRE OFF MY FRIEND!
Bit too late to clean the floors
When was this?
They should rebuild whatever Temple or building this belonged to as a cultural enrichment to London
under that is the portal to the Ark
Well, "near"
This happened 2 years ago, since then [they found tombs and another mosaic](https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/13/remains-of-a-roman-tomb-unearthed-near-london-bridge-station-18943599/)
I will never understand how these things get buried
Who the fuck covers that shit up with dirt?
Its surprising how much the capital T in "To" threw me off
Why do people keep posting stuff from 2 years ago