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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Also like, this looks like stone, not brick..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Presumably he shaped the tile after it was fired? I assume.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Shhhh just let it ride