• telllos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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…