27th November 2014, 01:41 PM
Jack Wrote: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.
Nope its based on a trawl of all grey lit reps across england which takes account of the background noise of interventions. draw a line from the humber estuary to somerset and miss out south of london!
you are 20 years out of date methinks
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers