16th September 2011, 01:28 PM
P Prentice Wrote:nah - i'm talking about parallel sided curving gullies with easily recognisable edges and bases - they are as easy to recognise as the penannular variety.
and yep i do believe in structured deposits, particularly in the terminal ends of a wide range of features. i have personally dug over 30 1st millennium BC roundhouses and getting on for 20 enclosures on at least 10 sites - and i mean open area excavations not keyholes - and i have found everything from complete querns to cremated animals, i have also worked on a massive midden site - seeing is believing
Ah, you suffer from the same glut of LBA/IA sites around there then! Some years it seems you can't do a job without more roundhouses turning up. Sounds like you must have dug nearly as many as Jack (who seems to have an absolute talent for finding the d**n things). Afraid you're not the only person to have found querns, been a bit surprised when you got the cremated bone report back and played in rubbish dumps either. Sadly these also all occur commonly in other places than ditch/gully terminals, so maybe those ones ain't so 'special' after all?...and when did middens become relevent to this discussion?
And yes, I'm (again) with Jack, bibliography please, if there's a whole missing class of specialist banana feature around here it'd be good to know, can start questioning why they don't seem to be turning up in some areas, could be a PhD in it for someone