Roman wooden water pipe discovered in Belgium

[guy]

 

A well-preserved Roman-era wooden pipe, dating from the 1st to 3rd century AD, was found in Leuven, Belgium. It was preserved by the water-logged, marshy soil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.belganewsagency.eu/roman-wooden-water-pipe-discovered-in-leuven

 

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/roman-wooden-water-pipe-unearthed-in-leuven/

 

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/roman-wooden-water-pipe-found-belgium

Edited Saturday at 06:38 PM by guy

[guidoLaMoto]

Very interesting.

They claim hollow logs were used, but it's a good bet that trees less than a foot or so  in diamater are rarely found to be hollowed by natural forces, and any hollowing is usually only a few feet in length, not involving six foot runs as stated in the article...and they'd need to find about 18 such examples to complete a run of piping 100 ft long.....OTOH, that would be quite a trick to manually core out six inch tree stems without an iron of steel auger.....

Then again, the aeronautical engineers tell us bumble bees shouldn't be able to fly....???

Space aliens must have done this for the Romans.