Re: St. Augustine (FL) Archaeological Dig Uncovers Historic Tavern
- From: Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:51:21 +1300
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:19:19 -0700 (PDT), Jack Linthicum
<jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Halbirt was amazed at the broken-bottle foundation. He says he only
knows of one other site where bottles were used to help with
construction.
There is a house in the Auckland suburb of Newmarket which was built
on what turned out to be site of the bottle dump from a brewery of the
previous century. By the time the house was built the existence of the
bottle dump had been forgotten and the site had been covered with
stone rubble which seemed typical of the area and was known to make an
excellent foundation.
The house was solidly built of stone and sat quite happily on its
foundation until the construction of a nearby motorway brought the
blasting of a passage through the basalt nearer and nearer. The house
used to bounce a little after each explosion but would settle down
again quite happily. After a particularly large explosion the house
jumped a little more than usual and this time settled back into the
ground with a noticeable list (and slightly down by the bows). That's
when the underlying bottle dump was discovered.
You guessed it. This time the impact had crushed many of the old
bottles which caused the collapse of the foundations.
Eric Stevens
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