18th April 2010, 11:08 AM
Actually our client couldn't give a t*** and EH weren't interested when funding the original PX programme, it's a private enterprise venture by myself and the finds manager, although with company blessing.....dunno where the isotope guys get their money from, SRC?
I agree completely about the need for joined-up thinking, but in the meantime we'll just to have to carry on with the 'we've got this stuff, no one wants to throw any money into the mix but is there anyone out there who wants to do anything with it?' -approach
Site's a discrete small Lankhills-type cemetery dug in the '90s (2nd largest group of crossbow-brooch burials in UK after Lankhills, but 200 miles north in North Yorkshire), interestingly it's not mixed up within a background burial population as at Lankhills (so we know we're looking at a distinct group of people with very different burial customs to their contemporaries in the nearby Roman town, so in this case even the couple of unaccompanied burials can be regarded as part of the group), but it is parked on one end of an Anglian cemetery.....:face-huh:
[monograph's been in the 'forthcoming' category so long I'm going to have to send several weeks re-writing/updating chunks of it at some point :face-crying:]
I agree completely about the need for joined-up thinking, but in the meantime we'll just to have to carry on with the 'we've got this stuff, no one wants to throw any money into the mix but is there anyone out there who wants to do anything with it?' -approach
Site's a discrete small Lankhills-type cemetery dug in the '90s (2nd largest group of crossbow-brooch burials in UK after Lankhills, but 200 miles north in North Yorkshire), interestingly it's not mixed up within a background burial population as at Lankhills (so we know we're looking at a distinct group of people with very different burial customs to their contemporaries in the nearby Roman town, so in this case even the couple of unaccompanied burials can be regarded as part of the group), but it is parked on one end of an Anglian cemetery.....:face-huh:
[monograph's been in the 'forthcoming' category so long I'm going to have to send several weeks re-writing/updating chunks of it at some point :face-crying:]