28th June 2012, 01:27 PM
Without digging out loads of dusty sheets of pervitrace sections, my impression is that the early ones are more often (but not always) single dumps of soily stuff into 'freshly dug' pits (ie no obvious primary silting) whereas the later ones are much more varied both in silting and fill sequences, finds etc (might even grudgingly go for occasional 'placed' objects, although half the ones in the literature are farcical, it's a bit of a polished axe therefore it must be a structured deposit, presumably these are the same people who call 2 rocks a building....). Sadly at some point I'm going to have to go into all this for one site, but luckily not this year, phew! Am taking notes though :face-approve: