28th June 2012, 03:55 PM
P Prentice Wrote:bugger - nothing new then
I'm just collating raw data at the moment, plotting stuff on maps and colouring in etc. Haven't started crunching numbers and cross-referencing yet.
Am gonna try and compare erosion of pit/feature edges, look for primary silty fills (Ta Dino), evidence of collapsing sides (in the chalk-cut pits). Then compare the different neo features, with the IA and RB ones and with ditches and other silted up features.
Hope to come up with some conclusions.
But off the top of me head...................noticed one large pit with Peterborough ware pottery in it (and no other pottery) had a primary fill of collapsed chalk from the pit sides (with undercut bit caused by this) overlain by dark silty fills. Very similar sequence to the ditch that cut it (Which was IA I think). So far its the best contender for a neo pit being left open. But need to check the other finds in the pit, the size and abrasion of the sherds and (hopefully) where the sherds were in the fills..........and of course the biological data.........and eventually radiocarbon date (probably by next year!)