26th November 2014, 02:37 PM
Ah! The old upland/lowland, Humber to Esk - line conundrum I presume?
One of my favourites.
Several skewing factors apply to distributions over this line.
Which also may apply to your east-west split.
For starters, something like 90% of archaeological excavations occurred due to PPG16. The distribution of this massive amount of work was/is dictated by the distribution of development, which is heavily biased towards the south and east.
Look at poor old Cumbria, there are vast swathies of upland that have hardly ever been dug.
Not to mention differing processes of preservation/destruction of archaeological remains.
One of my favourites.
Several skewing factors apply to distributions over this line.
Which also may apply to your east-west split.
For starters, something like 90% of archaeological excavations occurred due to PPG16. The distribution of this massive amount of work was/is dictated by the distribution of development, which is heavily biased towards the south and east.
Look at poor old Cumbria, there are vast swathies of upland that have hardly ever been dug.
Not to mention differing processes of preservation/destruction of archaeological remains.