what is the point of doing medieval archaeology anyway?

[gwyl]

@ Gwyl - thats the second post of yours which shows you dont know what to radiocarbon date - god, if it aint written on a coin you haven't got a clue. and from your syntax i would suggest that you have slept tooooooo long with unit

that'll be why i keep getting my c14 samples by return of post; and why the pot monkey keeps asking what's with all the charcoal...
any sovrins you find, i dropped em, awright...

@Jack; no neither do i; indeed my suspicion is that settlement in prehistory is less fixed than we might like to think; hence my excitement on the mother-thread of this thread about the potential of Bayesian stats to tighten chronologies, and indeed leave big gaps of nothing between occupation phases.

i have this problem at the moment, although i'll tell you about that later, in which my LBA/EIA field-systems, which overlie one another, are punctuated by a 30m diameter timber post enclosure; the problem is the pottery is all much of a muchness and only strat sorts it all out, and the strat is very thin on the ground - boomboom - horizontal strat with longhouses and poss cult building are indicative but with only one or two exceptions are ther physical relations

so there you go.

but if you want to talk medieval smithing, well...