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LeoRavus posted...

I should have said 9th century. But yeah seems like they had a lot of stuff still standing 400 years after the fall of Rome.

There's still some Roman stuff still standing 1600 years after the fall of Rome.

Its hard to know how long Roman stuff lasted after the fall. This was an English poem dated somewhere around that time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin

This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,
the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, fallen,
undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses
the mighty builders, perished and fallen,
the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations
of people have departed......

The people at the time were aware of the fact that were living in the ruins of a civilization that could build greater things than they were capable of.