• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer’s little gag centuries later.

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      I’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks.

      To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.

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        Maybe they’re deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.

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          I don’t think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so

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            Also, wouldn’t water erosion make them less deep not more, due to generally smoothing the stone?

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              Maybe water pools in them long after it dries out on the surrounding brick, but whether still water still erodes stone I don’t know.

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        It’s possible. I have paw prints of varying size and pressure in the concrete around my house (thanks cat).

        The ones from super wet concrete look almost like a duck/goblin footprint, the ones in drier screed look like those tiles, but much less deep.

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        1 year ago

        Also like, this looks like stone, not brick…

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      As a cat owner, this doesn’t even look like a real print. It’s too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.

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        The car walked on the brick before it was burned (the brick).

        Like when you put a fork in a cake to check if it’s done. The hole will be bigger when it’s heated afterwards.

        I don’t think it’s a deliberate prank, just a not my job situation.

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      Wouldn’t he have needed to change the brick? If you flip it then it wouldn’t fit there any more since its shape is asymmetrical.

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    I live in a house build in the late 1800s. There are names and dates carved into the brick facade from 70 years ago. I think that is kinda cool.

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    and no other prints around, so the cat came out and, of course, immediately went back in

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      These would have been made, fired, and then brought inside. There’s probably more prints but they’re probably on the underside of the tile.

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      to the ackchyuallies here: I know, but relax and enjoy the mental image of the fiction

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    Possibly whittled out of the brick long after installation, by a bored funster, using a crude round-tipped tool ?

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    There’s a St. Peter’s in Wormleighton and a St. Mary’s in Priors Hardwick… I wonder which one they’re talking about.