3rd October 2011, 12:55 PM
It all gets a bit confusing where the 'Iron Age' stuff starts reappearing well before the 'Romans' have 'left', eg the thing with cists, or at least varying levels of stone/tile lining of graves is that they're already starting up again in the 4th century, at least in Northern England (Wetherby and Catterick are good examples, the former using 2nd hand stone roofing slates), and burying people along boundaries rather than in more traditional nucleated cemeteries also seems to kick off as a popular fashion around the same time, but both then carry on for hundreds of years after 410. And what's with the resurgence of cremation, decapitation, burying people with their boots on etc etc and with loads of other stuff in the 4th century, just when they're all supposed to be becoming nice conforming Christians?
And we need more C14 dates!
And we need more C14 dates!