Causewayed enclosures

[Marcus Brody]

As archaeologists, I'm sure we all appreciate a joke of that antiquity!

[Sparky]

LOADS!

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Ta da! I thank you, Oxo.
(You should have used an expletive adjective, as I was going to)

[Jack]

How many prehistorians does it take to change a light bulb?

[P Prentice]

depends on whether they write subsoil on their context sheets

[Oxbeast]

[INDENT]How many prehistorians does it take to change a light bulb? [/INDENT]

None. Retaining the 'dead' lightbulb conveys a powerful message about the transitory nature of life. Bumping into furniture because you can't see it then becomes a liminal experience of dwelling mediated by this 'deadlight'.

[Dinosaur]

Starting to wish I hadn't mentioned crosswords....sorry BAJR, hope this isn't spoiling your enjoyment of this thread......

[Kel]

As a prehistorian, I wish to complain about how much that made me laugh!

Ay resemble that remark only slaightly, I'll 'ave you know...

[Jack]

None. Retaining the 'dead' lightbulb conveys a powerful message about the transitory nature of life. Bumping into furniture because you can't see it then becomes a liminal experience of dwelling mediated by this 'deadlight'.

Grin

Was thinking more of.......

seven:
One to change the light bulb,
One to study the specialness of the 'place' of the light fitting
One to study how the bulb and fitting fit into the wider ritu-monial enviro-scape
One to sit down and write about how the act made them feel and what they could smell during the act
One lightbulb specialist to catalogue the bulb and point at where it fits into the relative typology of bulbs and hence make a guess at the date of the fitting
One experimental archaeologist to re-enact the changing of the light bulb

and one scientist to point out that the bulb didn't need changing and that 'your now trying to screw a bayonet bulb into a screw thread'

[Dinosaur]

One lightbulb specialist to catalogue the bulb and point at where it fits into the relative typology of bulbs and hence make a guess at the date of the fitting

Cheaper to check out the light bulb display in the Discovery Museum in Newcastle....worryingly more interesting than you might think :0

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

To say 'Causewayed' implies low-lying boggy ground, unless they are approach roads with ditches along them-in which case, where's the causeway??