Usually means: Preserved in a deteriorated state.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (arrested decay)

noun:  (historic preservation) State of preservation where no attempt is made to improve a ruin, but rather to keep it from deteriorating any further.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see arrested, decay.

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