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History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some of those houses at the far end of the village look like they are still occupied.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It was apparently abandoned for good only come 1930.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

The NTS has improved the Village over the years. "They have reroofed [some of] the cottages on the main street, restored the church, and restacked stones that years of gales had toppled from the cleits, or bothies, that dot the volcanic landscape", according to a November 2017 report.[42] One cottage, #3 on "The Street", was more extensively restored and turned into the museum.[43][44]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirta

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

ngl, I'd live there

[–] IanTwenty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago