22nd November 2014, 10:50 AM
Quote:Ah, but if it hadn't samian spindle-whorls wouldn't be so interestingbasically what we are seeing is deforestation the roman roads are loggers roadways. Even Samian had to be made in Gaul because the Romans had run out of wood in Italy. And they had pretty much hit peak wood by hadrians time and scraping the barrel by the Constantine Christian take over when they desert the western empire which was once forests but now an open park land full of migrating hoards. The Saxons couldn't have made a pot if they had wanted to. They are basicaly burning brush, peat, dung and sods and looking for places where they can get the miserable stuff dry enough to get any warmth and industry out of it... A midden. Obviously by Stamford ware times the wood had grown back a bit but it didn't last. What might be funny is did Hadrian build the wall to protect Scotland as a source of wood?
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist