6th March 2008, 10:47 AM
I realise that this is only a possibly and really is fantasy but if I stick with the idea of an ambush and you were in the pit waiting to ambush you would probably keep the ammunition crockery behind you or possibly to your throwing hand side. So what this might be telling us is that the opposing forces were coming from the side that the crockery was on unless you were a foreword thrower and would require a swingers action.
What is interesting is that you found complete pot in the pie segment slot you cut. As well as it being sandy I bet you chose where to dig the pie segment slot. I like to call finding complete pots the Sites Complete Pot Index, SCPI, pronounced skippy, sometimes I call it the poisoned fish floating on the pond index, PFFOPI, but I use that for other things as well. Its an index which shows if the diggers can dig where they like. I have been on a few sites were people tell me where to dig and quite often it?s a slot in a ditch every ten metres and of cause they make you start at the baulk so that they can get a section with the top soil in and then you find that where the slots are supposed to go misses every bit of crockery showing on the surface and they get left or put in the unstrat bag and nobody finds anything in their slots. The index on these sites is zero. Now I am not saying that you will find a complete piece of crockery buried under a broken piece of crockery, unless its some squirrels type trick where people in the past hid complete pieces of crockery in old ditches and left pieces of broken crockery as markers, but I think its the best place to start and if you look at the slope of the sherd, dig on its lowest side but thats getting very safisticated. Also you have the problem when there is no crockery showing on the surface and then I like to go for the places which are darkest from carbonised organic remains although sometimes it could be charcoal, I call this the dark side. The other problem that I have had with following the dark side is that the supervisors don?t like it and they kick me off their sites.
What is interesting is that you found complete pot in the pie segment slot you cut. As well as it being sandy I bet you chose where to dig the pie segment slot. I like to call finding complete pots the Sites Complete Pot Index, SCPI, pronounced skippy, sometimes I call it the poisoned fish floating on the pond index, PFFOPI, but I use that for other things as well. Its an index which shows if the diggers can dig where they like. I have been on a few sites were people tell me where to dig and quite often it?s a slot in a ditch every ten metres and of cause they make you start at the baulk so that they can get a section with the top soil in and then you find that where the slots are supposed to go misses every bit of crockery showing on the surface and they get left or put in the unstrat bag and nobody finds anything in their slots. The index on these sites is zero. Now I am not saying that you will find a complete piece of crockery buried under a broken piece of crockery, unless its some squirrels type trick where people in the past hid complete pieces of crockery in old ditches and left pieces of broken crockery as markers, but I think its the best place to start and if you look at the slope of the sherd, dig on its lowest side but thats getting very safisticated. Also you have the problem when there is no crockery showing on the surface and then I like to go for the places which are darkest from carbonised organic remains although sometimes it could be charcoal, I call this the dark side. The other problem that I have had with following the dark side is that the supervisors don?t like it and they kick me off their sites.