12th May 2012, 12:14 PM
BAJR - cheers, am just interested in what scale the water supply would need to be in a set-up where they're driving all the livestock into home-base at night (which seems to be the perceived model on a lot of Iron Age farmstead sites, judging by a lot of literature) - I've dug dozens of IA sites over the years and yet I can't ever recall seeing a well or water hole or dewpond or anything of the like (except for a couple of jobs where all the features were full of water all the time!). Some IA sites are located where there never seems to have been a handy stream or whatever - did they leave their tin-baths out to collect rainwater? Or did the cattle just go dry overnight and had to be driven elsewhere in the morning?
On pits - have just realised I've got a publication draft in my heap for a site where there are ENeo/LNeo pits, but there are several remarkably similar small IA pits mixed in - maybe extend the range from 'the invention of the shovel' to 'the Romans turning up and showing them the error of their ways'? And them we've got the 5th/6th AD pit pair (which got dated as dead-cert Neo features).....
On pits - have just realised I've got a publication draft in my heap for a site where there are ENeo/LNeo pits, but there are several remarkably similar small IA pits mixed in - maybe extend the range from 'the invention of the shovel' to 'the Romans turning up and showing them the error of their ways'? And them we've got the 5th/6th AD pit pair (which got dated as dead-cert Neo features).....