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I finally saw the stone tool marks on an old wall in my hometown

Last weekend I was visiting my parents in a small town in Ohio and walked past this old limestone building I've seen a hundred times. Up close I noticed these perfect parallel grooves in the stone that looked just like the chisel marks from a documentary I watched about ancient quarrying. Has anyone else started spotting old tool marks on buildings after getting into archaeology?
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henderson.vera
Get yourself a good 10x loupe and look for the direction of the strokes, that will tell you if they were hand chiseled or done with early saws. You'll start seeing old tool marks everywhere now, on bridge stones, courthouse steps, even some old curb stones. Once your eye gets trained you can spot which walls were hauled in from a different quarry versus the local stuff.
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the_thomas
the_thomas20d ago
Wait, those grooves are actually from real stonemasons? That's wild.
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