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Strange Marks in a 1995 Photo Led Archaeologists to a Lost 18th-Century Building Beneath a Historic English Estate

Learn how buried foundations may connect to a building in a 1750 painting once thought to show renovations that were only planned.

Strange Marks in a 1995 Photo Led Archaeologists to a Lost 18th-Century Building Beneath a Historic English Estate

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