Apologies if this has already been posted, I did search but found zero.
Anyway, this came on my newsfeed just now .
'It's a bit Pompeii-like': The unexpected 'buried blocks' of Melbourne'
'Melbourne clay their shovels found a picket fence, its planks still hard and neatly rowed. At its base emerged a wooden track and, nearby, the stump of a long-ago chimney'
Long story short, whilst excavating, they discover a whole block under a city which is suposedly only 70 odd years old.
'There was no ready explanation for the workers, digging foundations for what would be Swanston Street’s famed Capitol Theatre, as the building they had just demolished had stood since 1865.
Melbourne as a European settlement had existed only 30 years before that.
What do they do? They 'discover' that due to the swamp like nature of the land the houses were buildton, residents where forced to bury their homes... yep, you read that right.
This next part reminded me of this Seattle
'The Alliance Archaeology study, Heritage in Ruins: An investigation into Melbourne’s ‘Buried Blocks’ reveals details of a forgotten campaign throughout the 1850 and 1860s by Melbourne’s then-council to raise the levels of swampy Melbourne’s putrid streets.
Hills were flattened and low-lying areas filled, the reason for today's milder up-and-down cross-town walks'
'However, the bombshell in the study was its discovery of a law passed in 1853 requiring those in low-lying areas to bury their homes. If a landowner refused or was too slow, the council was empowered to raise the level of the land itself and charge the costs'
The researchers pored through old council records, newspaper articles and existing archaeological reports to find references to at least 30 sites (although there are likely dozens more), many of which would still be frozen in time under Melbourne’s CBD"
There is even a list of events, just so you understand what happened you see...
Well, there we are, what mudflood? there was none, people simply burried their houses as told! This must have been what happened world wide?
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Love to hear the forums thoughts?
Anyway, this came on my newsfeed just now .
'It's a bit Pompeii-like': The unexpected 'buried blocks' of Melbourne'
Long story short, whilst excavating, they discover a whole block under a city which is suposedly only 70 odd years old.
'There was no ready explanation for the workers, digging foundations for what would be Swanston Street’s famed Capitol Theatre, as the building they had just demolished had stood since 1865.
What do they do? They 'discover' that due to the swamp like nature of the land the houses were buildton, residents where forced to bury their homes... yep, you read that right.
This next part reminded me of this Seattle
'The Alliance Archaeology study, Heritage in Ruins: An investigation into Melbourne’s ‘Buried Blocks’ reveals details of a forgotten campaign throughout the 1850 and 1860s by Melbourne’s then-council to raise the levels of swampy Melbourne’s putrid streets.
Hills were flattened and low-lying areas filled, the reason for today's milder up-and-down cross-town walks'
'However, the bombshell in the study was its discovery of a law passed in 1853 requiring those in low-lying areas to bury their homes. If a landowner refused or was too slow, the council was empowered to raise the level of the land itself and charge the costs'
The researchers pored through old council records, newspaper articles and existing archaeological reports to find references to at least 30 sites (although there are likely dozens more), many of which would still be frozen in time under Melbourne’s CBD"
There is even a list of events, just so you understand what happened you see...
Well, there we are, what mudflood? there was none, people simply burried their houses as told! This must have been what happened world wide?
Source
Love to hear the forums thoughts?
