16th September 2011, 01:52 PM
P Prentice Wrote:when people started living on them - negating the need to throw their 'rubbish' anywhere else, though i will contest that there is any evidence for rubbish in prehistoric britain
banana gullies - i seem to remember a few at thorpe hewles
Nothing obvious, flicking through the published site plans, Dave seems to have successfully subsumed any faintly banana-shaped things into proposed roundhouses in the published report (CBA Research Report 65) - there are some sausage-features though, if you want to broaden the discussion?. A lot of roundhouses in NE England tend to have only partial gullies on the upslope side or lie within a horseshoe-shaped gully (see Rock Castle not too far away where the main house starts and ends with a full penannular gully phases but goes through a 'horseshoe' phase in the middle of the sequence), and I've seen plenty with rather intermittent gullies