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[-] telllos@lemmy.world 51 points 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.

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

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