20th September 2011, 12:54 PM
P Prentice Wrote:ta for the heslop ref - new to me. woodward and hughes is a useful addition to the corpus and it echoes much of what i have done. my banana gullies are not truncated or disturbed......
Oh dear. I would be very careful in saying such a statement. Sounds like its made by someone who doesn't understand taphonomy.
I've never had, heard of or read of archaeological remains that were not truncated or disturbed in any way.:face-stir:
Did you then have the entire preserved depth of ancient soil that the features were cut into? And to be totally undisturbed is impossible, with all those pesky worms, moles, roots and burrowing snails. Not to mention 'disturbance' caused to the feature before it was buried.
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Am interested in the gullies being too close to the 'wall' to act as drip gullies. Did you have upstanding remains? How do you know where the 'eaves' ended or pitch of the roof?
Also am very interested how you can tell that the gully was dug after the building went out of use. In my experience many roundhouses were rebuilt several times in the same location (where the evidence of this survives).
Your description of banana gullies here seems to be different from what I imagined.... 'alongside the doorways' do you mean not following the line of the building wall?