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Re: Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney
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tiompan wrote:
Why would you use animal bone to stabilise paving slabs ?
Is there are precedent for the practice in similar circumstances ?


Why must there always be precedents? Someone has to be first :-)

If you were laying paving on less than perfect soil you could quite easily use whatever was at hand to bolster and level them up. In this case it could have been the larger animal bones. Seems perfectly reasonable to me...and it obviously worked! I think the bone immediately under the slabs and touching them supports (no pun intended) that theory.


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12th January 2017ce
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