16th May 2011, 06:19 PM
Thought you might! }
Not an immediate project, merely wanting to highlight potentially interesting surviving bits of a heavily quarried landscape and what could potentially be done with them in the future - it struck me the main quarry access road is a protected (ignoring services etc etc etc) surviving transect across another possible ex-cursus that's been pretty much totally lost elsewhere. Someone in the 70s recorded what appears to be a cursus ditch, and it would be nice to find out whether it has a parallel friend 30-40m to one side. About 1km away there are two big parallel ditches visible running for 300-400m on ancient APs and apparently co-linear with the first despite the big gap...good news is that one of the terminals may survive beyond this where amazingly there's a field that's never been quarried or built on.
Jack- we're talking lengths on varying alignments, sudden changes from continuous slots to lines of oval pits, that kind of stuff, very wierd, especially the length of slot that suddenly turns a right angle away from the cursus....next crew had to start again 4m further on but at least their bit seems to be fairly parallel- presumably they'd witnessed the previous lot being suitably dealt with :face-approve:
Not an immediate project, merely wanting to highlight potentially interesting surviving bits of a heavily quarried landscape and what could potentially be done with them in the future - it struck me the main quarry access road is a protected (ignoring services etc etc etc) surviving transect across another possible ex-cursus that's been pretty much totally lost elsewhere. Someone in the 70s recorded what appears to be a cursus ditch, and it would be nice to find out whether it has a parallel friend 30-40m to one side. About 1km away there are two big parallel ditches visible running for 300-400m on ancient APs and apparently co-linear with the first despite the big gap...good news is that one of the terminals may survive beyond this where amazingly there's a field that's never been quarried or built on.
Jack- we're talking lengths on varying alignments, sudden changes from continuous slots to lines of oval pits, that kind of stuff, very wierd, especially the length of slot that suddenly turns a right angle away from the cursus....next crew had to start again 4m further on but at least their bit seems to be fairly parallel- presumably they'd witnessed the previous lot being suitably dealt with :face-approve: