r/OakIslandDiscussion • u/whitelynx22 • 5d ago

Dry walls

Hell, it's a lot worse than dating tiles at a glance. Apart from cobblestone roads I'm also an expert on dry walls.

Everything they've found is of late construction (meaning late 1600s to mid 1700)

Anyhow, give me a dry wall and I'll give you an age. The Roman exterior walls here are extremely thick (gee, they essentially built a bunker above ground, well depends what you consider above ground). The others are thinner and they differ in construction.

Once you are used to them it's very obvious. (Good luck fixing a dry wall ñ it's very rare that one breaks but it happens with newer ones. The Roman walls don't budge!)

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u/whitelynx22 5d ago

No, seriously, I'm worried about myself. I drink and eat and in my free time I learn about dry walls, tilings, ditches and the like.

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u/Educational_Dig_80 5d ago

What would Katya think?

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u/whitelynx22 5d ago

Ah Katya my love... the coolest thing about dry walls is that they are both stable and flexible. In California you use wood to make a house earthquake proof (well, it won't kill you). Dry walls do exactly the same thing. You just have to build them for a few thousand years!