21st August 2012, 04:04 PM
Dinosaur Wrote::weirdly, have similar results from similar contexts and i always get an a/s one in any suite
Oh, a 'random' (slightly -ok so maybe not really, other pressures were at play...) selection of 6 'undated' and unloved small round holes in the landscape returned,:-
2 x early Neolithic
2 x late Neolithic
1 x Beakerish
and, errr,...
1 x early Anglo-Saxon
'fraid that was all the C14 budget I thought I could get away with on undated features with no finds or wider associations, interesting though. Those were scattered along around 15 miles of road scheme, and were all either isolated or formed one of a pair (that category included the Anglian one - have a suspicion that's a duff date though, there must be a couple somewhere in amongst a total of 40-odd dates). One was about a mile from a henge, the others anything up to 10 miles from any previously known Neolithic features
Just goes to show, anyway
Anyone got a spare couple of hundred grand so I can make a C14 lab very happy and do a proper survey of some of those ones that never seem to make the cut when it comes to trimming for publication?
waste of money really unless you use a decent sample - as jack sez
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers