distinctive regional traditions

[P Prentice]

Showing off again? I'm need a lie-down if I found one that size! That's more yer Roman/Med pit size

merely pointing out that the range they come in is extremely limited. most of mine less than 1.2 across and 0.5 deep
profiles may vary but so did Neo people (and diggers) so probably irrelevant
although i like the idea of pitfall traps and grub hunting pits - the evidence from pit group sites does not support either
if you think about the placed deposits at the base of causewayed enclosure ditch/pits, such as Etton, i would contend that pit digging was a way of penetrating the earth in order to put something back; sometimes with material culture, sometimes from a midden but probably with ceremony