Anyone live next to any historical ruins/buildings or just old shit in general?

>live next to any historical ruins/buildings
Oh yeah. My hometown is full of those, between protected old buildings and newly discovered archeological digs half the building projects around here have to get scrapped or at least moved somewhere else.

This.

My house is nearly one HUNDRED years old!

t. American

Where's that and can I live there?

99% sure that's Wales or Scotland.

Correct, Wales. Castell Dolbadarn in Snowdonia.

There's a site of an old Norse fortress a few hundred meters from where I'm sitting. Nothing really left of it, though.

>Basically everyone in rural Europe, mate.

And urban. I live in a suburb of a 800,000 city and my local church is an old baroque building. (which is built on the site of an older Gothic church) While not far away from that are ruins of an old medieval fort. Thats just in my vicinity, the whole city is like that, more or less. And so is the rest of Europe.

Always thought that was Scotland.

Closest thing to my house is an Iron age settlement about a 45 minute walk away, nothing left apart from the raised earthwork though but Celtic and Roman artifacts have been found there.

The most visible stuff are some 15th-16th century castles, but there are also some stone churches going back as far as the 10th century. There also 18th-19th century stuff all over the place.

I hate every single one of lucky cunts.

There's an old mill and mill race on my property. My father discovered it by accident when he uncovered the foundation with his back hoe

Whereabouts, mate?

I live a 5 minute walk from St Peter's Church, where the Venerable Bede lived, founded in 674 AD.

my town is built on an ancient burial ground. As in barrows, probably about 4000 years old. There are still two dozen of them lying around, but who knows how many were levelled over the years as the town and surrounding farms were built up. For all I know, my house was built on top of one. Most of the surviving ones are on a patch of ground too marshy for farming, which is probably why they survived (although sadly the acidic soil means that any human remains have long since decayed - although a few grave goods have been found to confirm they were burial sites).

Pic related is among the most visible. It, along with four others, overlooks the town cricket pitch (and the barrows give a wonderful viewpoint to watch the cricket from). I probably don't need to say that I live in Southern England.

Surely there are some Aboriginal relics lying in the outback?

There's an advantage to being in Australia, low population density means that demand for volunteering at digs is less so. I don't know about strict archaeology, I imagine that is more specialised, but I've volunteered on combined palaeontology/archaeology digs, seems to me that palaeontology digs in many areas can be heavily gated in terms of costs as a means to filter out anybody that isn't totally serious. There's just not as big a need for that here.

Literally fucking everywhere, I'm hopefully going to do a course on stone tool ID at the end of the month.

Found a stick the other day.

About 1,000 feet from my house is a small mansion where George Washington slept during the Battle of Long Island.

I just got into Oxford like 4 days ago (feels good man) and my college dates back to the early 16th century, with some buildings going back to the 13th.

And my secondary school was founded in the 16th century too, although its moved buildings several times and the current site is less than 20 years old.

>relics
What do you mean by relics?
The best cave paintings are all in what are classed as 'sacred sites' that non aboriginals need permission to see. There's stone arrangements but these tend to be both rare and in the middle of nowhere. The most interesting aspects of aboriginal culture are in museums.

Also, 90% of what you see in Australian museums was made by aboriginal artists within the last 60 years. A massive chunk of artefacts dating from the beginning or before European settlement was shipped to European museums.

>tfw Brit who lives in a town with nothing older than 200 years because of dat industrial revolution money.

>Also, 90% of what you see in Australian museums was made by aboriginal artists within the last 60 years. A massive chunk of artefacts dating from the beginning or before European settlement was shipped to European museums.
Really? So they're just replica's?

>tfw living in provincial town in lelgium, lmao just destroy all old buildings because muh population growth the only thing left is the church

I live close to a palace. There are Renaissance and Medieval festivals next to it.

>live in a town in the USA that didn't exist 150 years ago

feels good man fuck history

>find ancient graveyard
>built cricket pitch
This is the setting for the most British horror movie ever.

>16th century
I bet your family has been inbred for about as long, Nigel.

Live in northern Germany. Don't have a photo, but about 500 metres from me there's a small garden/park complex with a shallow lake about the size of a football pitch. It was artificially enlarged in the 1920s, but had long had a pond, and in earlier times (before agriculture changed the whole area, draining swamps and diverting much water of the land) it was thought to be part of a marsh or boggy woodland. So when they expanded the lake, digging up the muck, they found a few dugout canoes ca. 6000 years old, some assembled logs (suggesting a small road), as well as few other old artifacts, a scrap of leather (part of a shoe?), small pieces of leather rope/strap, a stone axe head. Nothing too amazing, but neat to think this area has been inhabited for this long.

While in Lesvos i literally lived almost next to a semi-abandoned ancient odeon in the forest, went there to take the dog for a walk, hang out with m8's or groom gals, did an awesome and very respectfull rave as well pic rel

That original pic is in Newcastle hence the shitty council houses in the background.

I live right next to Salisbury cathedral in Wiltshire and my house is 500 years old.

why do people in Euroistan live by so much old shit

We build civilisation like we build cool shit.

I'm on my phone so no pics right now but most of the buildings around my area are 500 years old. Might not seem like that much but I'm from the Americas.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

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