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Word of the Day: Spoliate

🕑 Added 2022-01-09 19:48:54 +0000 UTC

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Linda Marinkovich

I bet you are proud to have them. We set aside bricks for reuse.

Linda Marinkovich

resourceful. They needed the materials and they were in good condition.

Linda Bourne

Garden walls around many houses in uphill Lincoln are certainly reused Roman.

Donna Oglesby

I remember watching the older Time Team Video of this, and even replayed it TWICE!. I can understand people reusing the stones and rocks of one building, but so sad that they would just take apart a once beautiful building just to complete a home or another Church. Like vultures picking away at a dead body.sigh.

Michael leask

Stone reused, i know of many sites here in shetland where this is the case, the site at upper scalloway is one example, but another one we discovered was 3 kirks (churches) built in the norse period where stone was reused from previous buildings to build these kirks, and once these kirks got rebuilt again in the late 1700s they used the same stone again to build newer kirks plus other buildings.

John Atkinson

Does it apply to organ donors? Could we see a gravestone with an inscription like: "Bob Biker, born 1978, fell off, spoliated 2022?"

Jon Colcord

I was once a spoiled little brat, but I’m pretty sure I was never a spoliated little brat!

Erica Griffith

I just love Lawrence and Derek. They explain everything so well and their love for archeology and their friendship is so easy to see. It’s just lovely.

Irene Daly

I know ‘exfoliated’- I practice it often, in the privacy of my bathroom!

John Gross

There’s nothing wrong with it, at all, and thanks for championing an appropriate term, but, to be fair, this is a villa dig, so repurposing the root spoliātus is appropriate. 😊

Eggs Ackley

I once had a huge spoliated buttress but went to the clinic and had it lanced🎯🥴

Carol Franklin

What’s wrong with the word repurposed? There are those of us that worked long and hard to get that word into the vocabulary and of course the concepts behind it.

Eric Tottman-Trayner

So this particular structure is both spoliated and foliated!

Davis Johnson

Reuse, repurpose, recycle.

Robert Wise

So, is that derelict building maybe a clue to a new site?

Jeff Lanam

All along Hadrian's Wall there are stone structures built from spoliated stone from the wall, from pasture fences to Lanercost Priory, near Carlisle. I found this page with more. https://archaeology-travel.com/england/spolia-from-hadrians-wall/#:~:text=Hadrian%E2%80%99s%20Wall%20provided%20a%20source%20of%20stone%20that,of%20the%20Wall%20is%20not%20that%20far%20away.