Timeline for What would be the state of decay in an abandoned city?
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| May 22, 2016 at 13:40 | comment | added | Philipp | @coteyr They are very common in Ireland. | |
| May 21, 2016 at 3:46 | comment | added | coteyr | Plants will pull em down, or the ?grout? holding them together will give way. Single blocks of cut and dressed stone would likely be fine, but cobble stone like fences, I don't see being around. | |
| May 21, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | Dirk Bester | I helped my grandpa build stone fences. They are self standing and there is no reason for them to collapse other than a really bad earthquake. The large rocks used would have to decay a lot before the collection itself collapses. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 23:06 | comment | added | Sqeaky | A large wooden statue in an otherwise stone building might leave meaningful residue as described. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | Mark | No imagination needed: I've hiked in multi-hundred-year-old forests, and I've seen the lines of trees along a berm formed where a decomposing treetrunk provides nutrients. I've also seen that these variations in surface height aren't visible more than couple hundred years after the original tree fell, lost in the noise of later fallen trees. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 22:27 | comment | added | coteyr | Pole Barns, Churches, City square civic buildings, large enough houses, they would all leave a "pile" or "mound" of dirt. It wound't be much, but imagine a row of little mounds in a perfect line next to a path where trees and the like won't grow. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 22:04 | comment | added | Mark | "Major wood items" here being things like palisade-style city walls or multi-story buildings. 1500 years of forest succession will eliminate any trace of anything smaller. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 19:31 | history | answered | coteyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |