3rd January 2013, 01:42 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:so this pit was stratified within a palaeoenvironmental sequence but somehow it was thought that the bones were modern. Just out of interest how big an area did the evaluation cover and how big is this years excavation going to be around this aurocks burial site. Presumably when the aurocks was buried the site was not waterlogged?
Who said this year? - merely upcoming with timeframe and archaeological contractor not settled yet, so I may be reading about it same as you
Pits on edge of former small lake with nice stratified colluvial sequence interleaved with peat running down into the soggy bit, the bits of beastie had been sealed below a peat layer although the farmer's efforts at drainage had done for that, but we know it's still nicely peaty a little downslope. That trench was a 30x4m if my memory serves me right, but the excav will probably end up being pretty much the whole field so guesssing around 15ha, encompassing the entire former lake and 360 degrees of the shoreline plus overlooking hillslope that has Meso flints lying around on it. That do you?