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A row of Victorian, brick-built terraced houses in Bury, Greater Manchester, England (2008).One of the houses has been stone-clad. Stone veneer is a thin layer of any stone used as decorative facing material that is not meant to be load bearing.
Roman bridges, built by ancient Romans, were the first large and lasting bridges built. [86] Roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch as the basic structure. Most used concrete as well, which the Romans were the first to use for bridges. Roman arch bridges were usually semicircular, although a few were segmental (such as Alconétar ...
The Peristyle of Diocletian's Palace, collotype (1909).. The history of Split as a significant city, in its own right, begins with the Sack of Salona by the Avars in 639 CE. . Conflicting versions of the event are in existence, and it is unknown whether the city was taken by treachery, by ruse, or whether the defense was simply abandoned by the terrified popul
Diocletian's Palace (Croatian: Dioklecijanova palača, pronounced [diɔklɛt͡sijǎːnɔʋa pǎlat͡ʃa], Latin: Palatium Diocletiani) was built at the end of the third century AD as a residence for the Roman emperor Diocletian, and today forms about half of the old town of Split, Croatia. While it is referred to as a "palace" because of its ...
Roman bricks in the Jewry Wall, Leicester. The 20th-century bracing arch in the background utilises modern bricks. Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter ...
By Roman times many tiles were being made under the auspices of various Roman legions, and were imprinted with a stamp of the legion's insignia. Imbrices and tegulae are common finds in archaeological sites , and their design and markings can be of use in dating the sites and identifying the inhabitants. [ 1 ]