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Plain of the Bones

Plain of the Bones

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Plain of the Bones

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Location: Firenzuola, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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Angela Pulliero

July 4, 2022

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In Piana degli Ossi there is an archaeological site where it is possible to admire six kilns which in Roman times were used to produce lime. It is assumed that they were built around the 2nd century BC.

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Lucas

October 12, 2023

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Roman kiln for cooking lime

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The Winter Rider

January 22, 2024

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The gloomy toponym perhaps derives from the whitish stones that farmers once found scattered there, which to them looked like human bones, but in reality were the remains of stones burned in the furnaces by the Romans to make lime.

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Elevation 1,050 m

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Monday 20 July

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53 %

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