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210 points benbreen | 1 comments | 23 Jul 24 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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pulvinar ◴[27 Jul 24 03:32 UTC] No.41084263[source]▶

There's no mention in the article as to why the cuttings were beneath the floorboards. My guess is one girl got mad at another and slipped her classwork between the boards. Possible since this predated tongue & groove (the technology angle).

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1. floam ◴[27 Jul 24 04:53 UTC] No.41084529[source]▶

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According to another article, they just slipped through the cracks on the floor from time to time and accumulated over the years.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/sutton-house-a...

I imagine the debris also included coins and the like.

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Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards