11th May 2012, 05:13 PM
BAJR Wrote:So this is where an understanding of blurred chronology and overlaps as well as regional variation could be useful, one diggers Iron Age is anthers Romano British.
Would you call 500AD Iron Age for example.
This is a good point I think... so worth including.
Nah, Iron Age pits are bigger, can spot them, big enough to live in in fact...now there's a thought!
PP - yeah, some of the pits have Beaker in, and then they move on to bits of assorted urns and food vessels and random brown pottery - other than that the pits and the other stuff in 'em's exactly the same though, they even carry on doing them in pairs whatever that's about (have pit-pairs running from c.3700-1600ish cal.BC on the thing I'm currently writing up)
Now the really hot research topic is:- (dah dah da!....) when during the day do sheep, cattle etc like to drink? Dawn, dusk or at random points between? Anyone of a rural pursuasion (or nasty day-trip habits we don't wish to hear about) able to indicate a pattern? [a ref. would be handy]