One of the Renaissance-era sculptors decided to dig a basment under his house. A few feet below the floor he ran into a flat stone slab.
It turned out to be the top of a capital, the kind used at the tops of columns.
In trying to dig it out, he found the column was still there.
The rest of the ruined, buried building was also still there.
On a rest stop during an Italy tour, the resort owner told of finding a piece of marble slab.
He covered it back up.
Else the authorities would have shut down his whole operation.