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		shagie on June 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct t... There's the story by the Long Now foundation about the oak beams at the New College in Oxford https://longnow.org/ideas/humans-and-trees-in-long-term-part... /// https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-ox... /// https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/oct/02/david-... Another example (and less debatable in its authenticity) Why the US Navy Manages Its Own Private Forest - https://www.military.com/history/why-us-navy-manages-its-own... /// https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11/the-wooden-wall... (and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793461 )

kryptiskt on June 2, 2023 [–]

In the 1950s, Lund Cathedral bought the quarries where the stone for it originally came 900 years ago, so they know they have a source of the right stone for renovations.

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