A handbook for new diggers?

[P Prentice]

tut tut :face-stir:

The majority of 'doorways of 690 circular structures from 253 sites in north and central Britain' are NE to SE facing (Pope 2007, fig. 4). Yes the biggest spike is E, but more doorways don't actually point east than do.

But I presume 'eastwards' covers that.

Interestingly taking the direction of facing in four quarters (NE, SE, SW, NW) and ranking them in order of most to least its: SE, NE, SW then NW last.
If you take the data as two halves (E, W) its: E then W
If you take the data as two halves (N, S) its S then N

If you take the data as eight quadrants..............ESE wins, SE and SSE next (erm..i think, brain beginning to hurt)

Depends on how you split the data

We didn't have a fire lit all day as that would use loads of wood. It's a lot of effort to go searching for and chop up enough good dry, well seasoned wood for just an evening, let alone a full day. Besides daylight gives much better light than a fire. It was warm enough and light enough so we didn't waste the wood.

There was another roundhouse that had a doorway facing the opposite way, but as this was the leaky one didn't spend much time in it.

Would be interesting to spend time in both and compare the difference.

and you would have top spend a year in it with all your family, slaves, animals etc for you to have even a remotely valid point- or you could look at recent comparative anthropological examples and save yourself the bother as they are at least if not more use than your weekend camping