Post by @RickGaehl@mstdn.social

2026-09-26 08:42 UTC

I came across this piece of restored flooring recently. It's a 1,000-year-old stretch of medieval tiling from a Benedictine abbey. What makes it especially interesting is that the monks made their floor from repurposed Roman tiles and hypocaust bricks that they found on site. This seems, to me, to have been a practical, attractive, and environmentally sound arrangement, and I was much taken with it. #Photography #History #Archaeology #Church #Tiles #Romans

Replies (6)

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-09-26 08:44

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle 🙂🖖

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@Brianrh@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 11:55

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social they're cracking already, they'll never last. Same dodgy builders. 😅 Seriously though it is incredible how well it was done and they never planned for it to last this long.

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@trainguyrom@techhub.social 2026-09-26 12:07

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social the thing that always floors me (hehe get it?) is seeing thousand year old stone floors like this one worn smooth by a thousand years of foot traffic

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@kitten_tech@fosstodon.org 2026-09-26 13:05

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social I used to live in a house, bits of which the original builders had made with bits from derelict Roman villas nearby

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@akamran@indieweb.social 2026-09-26 13:08

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social it looks like it was made of cookies 😏

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@czarbucks@m.ai6yr.org 2026-09-26 13:13

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social I thought it was a picture of brownies. I am a sick, sick person...

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