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Recent news. While laying communications in the suburb of St. Petersburg on Aviakonstruktorov Avenue, the builders came across a marble bust measuring about 0.5x0.3 m. Short news report:
Photos of the find were taken (link to the author below):
Promotional video:
The bust lies shallow, in black earth, which is filled with water, because the find was made in the spring. Because the whole world is in self-isolation, it is impossible to call archaeologists or other specialists.
Researcher of St. Petersburg antiquities, Grigory Kobesh was not too lazy to go to see the find with his own eyes:
He did not find the rest of the column. In this case, we can only ask questions. For what reason did this bust (or part of a sculpture) end up in a deserted place underground? Previously, there was a palace, or workshops where such things were made? It is necessary to refer to the history of this place. It is possible that a number of artifacts are located deeper. And this one squeezed out a frosty heave. This effect of squeezing stones to the surface is found in fields in Belarus (stones are collected from arable land almost every year).
Archaeological excavations would partly clarify the issue. But these specialists are not currently employed. Interestingly, the builders are waiting for them or the find has sunk into history, tk. nobody will stop construction.
Other interesting information from the Leningrad region, which says that not all stone blocks are machined. Many, as I have repeatedly argued, are ancient concrete (or geo-concrete - exits from the bowels of plastics).
Kamennogorsk, Vyborg district. St. Andrew's Church. Rather, its foundation. It can be seen that the metal tie holds the two blocks together. But the "bracket" is inserted or poured into the stone mass. It makes no sense to drill holes in blocks to insert smooth reinforcement there. It is more efficient to make grooves in blocks of the “dovetail” type and lay the same form of screed.
But if the metal is poured with liquid concrete, similar in composition to a stone mass, or drowned in a plastic mass of geo-concrete, this is more logical. Such finds are not the only ones. In the previous parts of this series of articles I cited a similar example from the St. Petersburg embankment. There, a curved metal rod is poured into a granite pillar.
Another example from the ruins of the Church of St. Andrew and also in the vicinity of Kamennogorsk:
Why is it believed to be church ruins? And if so, who destroyed them to the ground? Or what?
Historians and archaeologists are oblivious to such details with metal ties. We do not even know the elemental composition of alloying additives that allow iron not to rust for centuries. Many facts are inconvenient for historical works, because there is no place for unconventional things and technologies. Only a few lovers of antiquity make such photographs, from which one can draw their own conclusions.
Author: sibved