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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.

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Abandoned village on the island of Hirta, Scotland (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Some of those houses at the far end of the village look like they are still occupied.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The NTS has improved the Village over the years. "They have reroofed [some of] the cottages on the main street, restored the church, and restacked stones that years of gales had toppled from the cleits, or bothies, that dot the volcanic landscape", according to a November 2017 report.[42] One cottage, #3 on "The Street", was more extensively restored and turned into the museum.[43][44]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirta

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