The library of ground
Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.
125 places · 53 localities · last reviewed 12 September 2026
United Kingdom
North LeighNorth Leigh holds a Roman villa of some sixty rooms above an Iron Age settlement, a Saxon church tower a thousand years old, and Eynsham Hall, a Georgian hunting lodge torn down and rebuilt grander by the Mason family, later a wartime maternity ward and police training college.
4 digs
47 records
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35 records Portugal Salvaterra de MagosSalvaterra de Magos grew up around a royal hunting retreat built in the 1500s and favoured by the Portuguese crown into the 1700s. Fires in 1817 and 1828 and an earthquake in 1858 brought the palace down, leaving only its chapel and falconry standing near where the bullring now stands. 1 dig
9 records Ireland DublinDublin's ground carries siege, rebellion and argument in close quarters: a corner near Dublin Castle that saw a collapsed 1649 siege and 1922 street fighting, and a spot on O'Connell Street where a column stood, fell to a bomb, and gave way to the Spire. 2 digs
24 records Italy RomeRome's ground carries layers rather than a single story: an amphitheatre ordered by Vespasian for public death, an imperial bathhouse now outlined by a piazza's colonnade, a fountain that once scandalised the city, and a Forum chasm and pyre tied to Caesar's own end. 4 digs
52 records Portugal LisbonLisbon's ground carries a walled hill taken by siege in 1147, a riverside palace lost to the 1755 earthquake, and buildings where the secret police worked and finally fired on a crowd in 1974. Each site here was researched on its own before being gathered into this record. 4 digs
44 records France ParisParis has grown across two thousand years from a walled Gallo-Roman island to a capital of kings, revolutions and world's fairs, its ground layered with fortresses, convents, tollgates and battlefields, each stratum still traceable beneath the boulevards Haussmann drew over them. 30 digs
289 records
47 records
The mansion torn down and rebuilt grander
Eynsham Hall · 100–2023
The house they knocked down to build a bigger one
Eynsham Hall, Terrace Walls To Rear · 700 BC–1981
The house that got torn down to build a bigger one
Eynsham Hall, Terrace Walls To Rear · 100 BC–1981
United States
Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City's ground holds a war ended by a handshake, a fortune's ambition stalled mid-build, and a killing on the Jordan River decades before any street existed. From an 1857 mansion to an abandoned 1980s megaproject, the record here moves between peace-making, unfinished grandeur and old violence.
3 digs26 records
The trap on the Jordan River
9661 South 2810 West · 1877–1994
The mansion where Utah made peace with the army sent to crush it
Devereaux House · 1857–2024
United States
HighlandHighland, Utah, sits on the old bed and shoreline sand of Lake Bonneville, ground once farmed and later platted into subdivisions such as Dry Creek Highlands and Blessing Rock at Beacon Hill. Builders raised houses there through the 2000s and 2010s, and ownership since has passed through families, lenders, and trusts.
5 digs35 records Portugal Salvaterra de MagosSalvaterra de Magos grew up around a royal hunting retreat built in the 1500s and favoured by the Portuguese crown into the 1700s. Fires in 1817 and 1828 and an earthquake in 1858 brought the palace down, leaving only its chapel and falconry standing near where the bullring now stands. 1 dig
9 records Ireland DublinDublin's ground carries siege, rebellion and argument in close quarters: a corner near Dublin Castle that saw a collapsed 1649 siege and 1922 street fighting, and a spot on O'Connell Street where a column stood, fell to a bomb, and gave way to the Spire. 2 digs
24 records Italy RomeRome's ground carries layers rather than a single story: an amphitheatre ordered by Vespasian for public death, an imperial bathhouse now outlined by a piazza's colonnade, a fountain that once scandalised the city, and a Forum chasm and pyre tied to Caesar's own end. 4 digs
52 records Portugal LisbonLisbon's ground carries a walled hill taken by siege in 1147, a riverside palace lost to the 1755 earthquake, and buildings where the secret police worked and finally fired on a crowd in 1974. Each site here was researched on its own before being gathered into this record. 4 digs
44 records France ParisParis has grown across two thousand years from a walled Gallo-Roman island to a capital of kings, revolutions and world's fairs, its ground layered with fortresses, convents, tollgates and battlefields, each stratum still traceable beneath the boulevards Haussmann drew over them. 30 digs
289 records
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