10th July 2012, 08:49 AM
Dug enough holes around here to agree that it's not the result of wildlife penetration, or we'd get it in features of all periods? Very distinctive. There's clearly a variety of depositional processes/sequences going on, the charcoally soil ones are obviously different from the ones rammed full of burnt stones for instance, even where they're the same date and grouped together. Any thoughts on pit pairing? Why two? Second one to ritually bury the spoil from the first?...ok, maybe not...Round here there's quite often a bigger one and a smaller one although looking at what happens in the middle/upper Thames valley they more often to get them with similar sizes. Have noticed that several collared urn cremations up here seem to have required two pits next to/intercutting each other.....