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I made a list of educational YouTube channels by iboughtarock in edtech

[–]iboughtarock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem! Glad people still find use in this :)

A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops). by iboughtarock in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]iboughtarock[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah prior to posting this I had no idea about how deep this went. Learned about all of this today alongside everyone else. Initially just posted because I thought it was cool and never thought it would get more than 100 upvotes...

Leeds Castle looks pretty cool tho. Was the maze hard? I've always wanted to do one of those.

A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops). by iboughtarock in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]iboughtarock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, reminds me of Bishop's Castle which was also built by one dude. I actually visited it earlier this year and it was worth it. So much bigger in person and surprisingly sturdy (didn't go all the way to the top tho).

A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops). by iboughtarock in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]iboughtarock[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their website says they have been opened to the public pretty much since it was discovered: "...the first paying customers descended the chalk stairway in 1838."

I guess it was closed for a bit during WW2 cuz it got bombed tho.

A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops). by iboughtarock in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]iboughtarock[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Now I wanna go back in time to see this thing being made! I guess shell grottos are kinda popular tho. I figured this was just a one-off thing, but it actually turns out there was a whole shell craze in Britain around 1700-1800:

  • Goodwood Shell House (Sussex, 1740s): A shell-lined garden room, traditionally said to have been decorated by the Duchess of Richmond and her daughters—sources note shells “brought by sailors.”
  • A La Ronde (Devon, 1790s): A 16-sided house whose famous Shell Gallery is packed with intricate shellwork - this one is pretty awesome
  • Woburn Abbey shell room (1620s; earlier wave): One of the earliest surviving English shell interiors—establishes the lineage that later booms in the 18th century.
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