Struggling to explain what I mean, every major city/river/harbour doesn’t have a natural coast line, but generally a stone wall that goes down into the river and creates a permanent solid edge. I’m sure with modern technology its easier, but the ones built hundreds of years ago baffle me. Tried googling it but got a combination of Minecraft, retaining wall and river rock information..
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I guess it depends on how far you want to go back and what you mean by “how was it done”. Generally in pre-industrial times you would obtain rock from a local quarry and have it brought to an area you wanted to build up. This was usually done by things like pulling it on a cart using a beast or large groups of workers.
Once the stone was on site they would just use the applicable masonry techniques for the time and area they were in.
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