Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka fara samar da tubali a tsibirin Birtaniya, tsayin 11⁄2 "zuwa 2" na tubalin Roman ya karu a hankali a lokacin farkon zamanin da. An yi amfani da tubali daga Tsohon Roman Empire a cikin Turai na tsakiya da kuma daga baya. Ana iya samun wannan sake amfani a duk faɗin tsohuwar Daular Rome. A Biritaniya, inda kayan gini ba su da yawa, an haƙa gine-ginen Roman don dutsen da tubalin su kuma an sake amfani da shi. Misalai na wannan nau'in sake amfani a Great Britain ana iya samun su a cikin majami'u na Anglo-Saxon
a Brixworth, Corbridge, St. Martin's, Canterbury, da St Nicholas ', Leicester, da kuma a cikin St Albans Abbey coci (yanzu St Albans Cathedral).