Over in the courtyard of the State Museum, they’ve got a stockpile of ready-made construction stoppers.

I frequently warned that digging a hole in Mainz will hit mostly something of historical interest – a temple to the goddess Isis, a Roman shipyard, the northern-most amphitheatre – bringing all work to a halt while the archaeologists get cracking with their tweezers and brushes, the project manager tears his hair out and the developer trying to work out how many days he is away from bankruptcy.

And if this wasn’t bad enough, you’ve got the museum schemers who mutter “We’ve always suspected a temple/villa/graveyard at that location, but they haven’t actually found anything yet. Never mind, we’ll get Dieter to head over under cover of darkness next moonless night and bury one of these in the excavations. That’ll stop ’em for sure…”

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