9th September 2011, 12:33 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Never heard that expression before. Tree bowl?? Did you mean tree throw? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_throw
I know what a tree throw is (crescent shaped hole left by the tree falling over, bringing its root bowl with it), I've dug up prehistoric ones and seen modern ones after the 1987 storms.
The problem is, many excavators seem to interpret any oval hole with a low amount of cultural material as a 'tree bowl', but after 20 years digging I still don't know what they are!