The Romans built this aqueduct more than 2000 years ago to bring water into the city and surrounding farms. It’s still in top shape, although not in use any more. I very seriously doubt that anything we build now will be still up in 2000 years.
A lovely shot of this magnificent aquaduct! There are some interesting Roman remains in York, but nothing on this scale. Many remains here have been built over during the intervening centuries, and await archaeologists rediscovering the remains.
@bigmxx@ingrid01@mittens@pattyblue@fayefaye@photographycrazy@merrelyn@fishers Thanks a lot for your nice comments. I went on a tour today and learned that there is nothing sticking the stones together - just gravity! Apparently, there are studies which affirm that, if just one stone were to be removed, the whole thing would collapse is less than an hour. Of course that’s very unlikely to happen, as each stone weighs about 2 tons.
April 11th, 2023
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