History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]

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Urquhart Castle in winter, Scotland (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In Scottish Gaelic, this is Caisteal na Sròn, or "castle of the promontory". "Sròn", though, is also the word for nose. So it's the Castle of the Nose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A nose really is just a face promontory