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A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 14th May 2012
P Prentice Wrote:maybe they are just better at it
Unlikely, I used to work for them before I move 'up'.
Suspect it's also an issue of subsidisation by the institution they are/are not attached to......................but this is all just idle gossip and pondering...........interesting though
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 14th May 2012
Jack Wrote:I'm sure with your recent obsession with pits you have enough material to write a book....
Nah, I said something interesting (as opposed to everywhere) - anyway pits have already been done this year
A handbook for new diggers? - P Prentice - 15th May 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:I've dug dozens of IA sites over the years and yet I can't ever recall seeing a well or water hole or dewpond or anything of the like
sometimes you get a an extra deep (waterlogged) pit in a pit alignment and sometimes you get a cistern on the base of an enclosure ditch - you just have to dig enough to find them
A handbook for new diggers? - P Prentice - 15th May 2012
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Well I definitely would...cos its unlikely that anyone sent out an executive order telling folk to stop using flint just because some bugger had invented bronze!!
so by your reckoning neolithic pits were still being dug c.1000BC (like dinosaur) - or will you do 500AD in scotland?
A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 15th May 2012
P Prentice Wrote:sometimes you get a an extra deep (waterlogged) pit in a pit alignment and sometimes you get a cistern on the base of an enclosure ditch - you just have to dig enough to find them
Yeah was gonna say, based on how many features on such sites seem to fill up with water during excavations (annoyingly) maybe their would be plenty water around in the ditches and any open pits.
A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 15th May 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:Nah, I said something interesting (as opposed to everywhere) - anyway pits have already been done this year
Pits are interesting. Its just we haven't worked out just how interesting yet...............(especially when they are most of what survives of ancient activities).
But maybe if they were called 'reservoirs of ancient soil, artefacts and activities' then they may seem more interesting.
The word 'pit' hides the mysteries hidden within under the mundane imagery of some navvy leaning on a shovel and surveying their work.
Pit (n.) 1: a large hole in the ground; a mine or excavation for coal or minerals....etc.
-- Concise Oxford English Dictionary
A handbook for new diggers? - CARTOON REALITY - 15th May 2012
Quote:But maybe if they were called 'reservoirs of ancient soil, artefacts and activities' then they may seem more interesting.
An inscrutable concavity?
A handbook for new diggers? - CARTOON REALITY - 15th May 2012
An indented conundrum?
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 15th May 2012
Jack Wrote:Yeah was gonna say, based on how many features on such sites seem to fill up with water during excavations (annoyingly) maybe their would be plenty water around in the ditches and any open pits.
So what we should really be looking for is evidence for widespread malaria in the Iron Age population?
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 15th May 2012
P Prentice Wrote:.... you just have to dig enough to find them
Explain that to the curators with their 20% of this and 10% of that excavation strategies....oh.....