13th November 2014, 10:12 AM
Isn't that an answer tool- why was there so much, as in stupid amounts, of pottery (in britain) in the roman period compared to the iron age and the dark ages? I am not sure that I have noticed much difference in the amount of the pottery between the iron ages and the dark ages even the bronze age. I must admit that I think that often i work under a presumption that the Romans brought the Saxons in but made the saxons friesians live out side the roman towns and villages and that the danes did as well because the Saxons could....because...could involve how things were cooked, still working on that, but nobody came back to the site unless a good bit of black earth had accumulated. Mostly the net result is that Romans switch the lights off on a site and nothing much happens untill some jammy farmer manages to get planning permission to build on a greenfield site which might have had a bit of manureing (althought I don't think much manureing went on untill the enclosures). The net result is we turn up find rampant Roman pottery orgy in the middle of nowhere some roman pot specialist calls some of it Romano British, if we find any fourth century measure distance to the Saxon shore and imagine Constantine 1 moving the empire away from Britain to Istanbul and if above that you find any pot is all where's the manor monastery or village that might be involved in manureing
Still for pot the Romans were proliferate and are conspicuous. Another thing that I think is a bit dubious is so called Romano-British designation when it's used to suggest that some local was pretending to be roman whether before the Romans turned up or during particularly if the term is meant to suggest that a local pot tradition might have lived on somewhere in the woods through the roman period joining up the two iron ages that happened on both sides of the Romans.
Still for pot the Romans were proliferate and are conspicuous. Another thing that I think is a bit dubious is so called Romano-British designation when it's used to suggest that some local was pretending to be roman whether before the Romans turned up or during particularly if the term is meant to suggest that a local pot tradition might have lived on somewhere in the woods through the roman period joining up the two iron ages that happened on both sides of the Romans.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist