17th May 2011, 12:49 PM
P Prentice Wrote:what you are describing appears to be totally at odds with what we do know about cursus construction and the oval pit alignment technique sounds more like you would expect in a causewayed enclosure -you presumably know about the pit cursuses in lowland Scotland?. add this to the possibility that you are in one of Roy's cult centres then this is hugely important - surely?
But still not sure what would be gained by digging 100% - the individual bits are staggering uninteresting in themselves, and the finds assemblage from last 3 weeks comes to a total of an undiagnostic tiny bit of flint debitage and 2 scraps of burnt clay. Since there's no stratigraphic relationships surviving between the individual components courtesy of Piers the Ploughman I rather doubt we'll ever get beyond 'ooh, that's pretty'...it only becomes interesting when viewed as an overall plan (which hardly requires 100% excavation, just a quick clean-up after machining and some high-level piccies and planning) :face-stir:
oh, and some scientific dates would be nice