17th May 2011, 01:09 PM
Dinosaur Wrote: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)
you keep saying that you havent found anything but you have yet to say how much you have dug? one could easily expect to find nothing in a section across a causewayed enclosure segment but nobody in their right mind would contest you shouldn't dig it all out. if you are sampling 1% of a cursus ditch and find nothing that can hardly be taken as representative - even if nobody else has yet found anything more on any other cursus.
and 2 scraps of burnt clay?? -