25th July 2012, 01:51 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Going back to how long these pit-digging traditions continued, have just been reading a grey-lit where they had the usual sparse scatter of Neo/Beaker pits, and, errr, one with two C14 dates at 1420-1250 cal BC on carb grain, but no other 'settlement' features - maybe thats why there's no Bronze Age settlement in the Yorkshire/North-East lowlands? They just carried on being Meso but with shinier kit and posher ways of burying people? All seems to kick off with a bang from the Early Iron Age, but no settlements and field systems any earliernot unusual in the northern regions -
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