22nd August 2012, 09:48 PM
I find it odd that no-one from GGAT has been to site - regardless of the dating it's an interesting site, and given public interest it would seem a sensible precaution to arm themselves with first hand observations and discussion. Jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions doesn't seem likely knowing the characters involved. :face-huh:
The interpretation doesn't quite add up though: "...the Early Bronze Age date came from the SUARC Radiocarbon Laboratory in Scotland, where a charcoal sample from the site tested at 3,630 years before the present. The supposed ‘Roman drains’ are closely cut into the surface of one of four classic Bronze Age ‘burnt mounds’ – drifts of burnt pebbles used as ‘pot-boilers’. The mound has also produced Early Bronze Age pottery" - so there are two EBA phases?
The past belongs to no-one, it's an abstract concept, always found that a ludicrous soundbitey phrase. The knowledge should be available to everyone. Anyone can interpret it, but the validity of the interpretation, and the right to determine importance rests with those who have the experience, expert knowledge, and appointed/elected responsibility to make that decision. Otherwise everything is arbitrary and the whole system collapses about the ears of the loony fringe doomsayers and the politically/financially motivated.
The interpretation doesn't quite add up though: "...the Early Bronze Age date came from the SUARC Radiocarbon Laboratory in Scotland, where a charcoal sample from the site tested at 3,630 years before the present. The supposed ‘Roman drains’ are closely cut into the surface of one of four classic Bronze Age ‘burnt mounds’ – drifts of burnt pebbles used as ‘pot-boilers’. The mound has also produced Early Bronze Age pottery" - so there are two EBA phases?
The past belongs to no-one, it's an abstract concept, always found that a ludicrous soundbitey phrase. The knowledge should be available to everyone. Anyone can interpret it, but the validity of the interpretation, and the right to determine importance rests with those who have the experience, expert knowledge, and appointed/elected responsibility to make that decision. Otherwise everything is arbitrary and the whole system collapses about the ears of the loony fringe doomsayers and the politically/financially motivated.